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.
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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.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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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.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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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.
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'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.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
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Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
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'You should only alienate folks when you mean and want to do it. ... It should never be an accident.'
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The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.
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And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.
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I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.
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What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.
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Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
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Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unprecedented magnitude -- all he ever wanted was to be president. But of all the presidents I have known, he was the most thoughtful.
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To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
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Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
