Douglas Kennedy Quotes

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Douglas Kennedy

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dangerous
  • Walk
  • Miami

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Need

• 'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • World
  • Different
  • Society

• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Long
  • Acting

• There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Respect

• I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Character
  • Enjoy

• The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Up
  • Together
  • Learning

• There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Done
  • Opinion
  • Silence

• Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it's a little more refined, visually.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • More
  • Dress

• Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Job
  • Passion
  • Like

• Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Action

• 'You should only alienate folks when you mean and want to do it. ... It should never be an accident.'

  

  Nancy Werlin

• The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.

  

  Annie Besant
  • God
  • True

• And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Wise

• The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Men
  • Age

• I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

  

  George C. Marshall
  • Time
  • Mind

• DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Existence
  • Communicate

• Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

  

  Douglas Kennedy