Florynce Kennedy Quotes
Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.
Quotes to Explore
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When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
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My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.
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Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.
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You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.
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When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.
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Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.
