Mark Kennedy Quotes
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.
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Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.
