Bernard Kerik Quotes
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.
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Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder. Yet in essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do, through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the Second Amendment.
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The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.
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I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?
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I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
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Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.
