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.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Music
  • May
  • Kids

• 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

• It was never my goal to be an actor.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Never
  • Goal
  • Actor

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Death
  • Afraid

• 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

• Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Important
  • Long
  • Man

• 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

• Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Right
  • Nation
  • Herself

• 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

• If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Decision

• And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Question
  • Humans
  • Might

• We travel through the dark of the moon whenever… we face the loss of that form which has given our life a structure and sense of identity… What has been is no longer, and what is to come has not yet appeared.

  

  Demetra George
  • Dark
  • Loss
  • Come

• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  

  Nicolas Bourriaud
  • Experience
  • Crises
  • Modernity

• 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