Florynce Kennedy Quotes

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Florynce Kennedy

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• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • War
  • Lost
  • Pain

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Economic

• I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Look
  • Definitely

• Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Man
  • Friend
  • Do The Right Thing

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Become
  • Seeing
  • Structure

• The 100m is never stressful.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Never
  • Stressful

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Nothing
  • Being
  • Wrong

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Government
  • Growth

• Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

  

  Whitney Balliett
  • Together
  • Taste
  • Critics

• I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

  

  John Irving
  • Writing

• You write these songs which are really dear to you about your family or friends, loved ones, and then you get this call, and they say, 'It's perfect for two vampires making out in the back of a car.' It's some random TV show, and so I say, 'Oh, yeah, perfect - that's what I meant it for.'

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• ... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Energy
  • Teacher
  • Brains