Florynce Kennedy Quotes
Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
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Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
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Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.
