Douglas Kennedy Quotes

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

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• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • History
  • Politics

• I love to push myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Push

• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
  • Give
  • Physician

• I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Shopping

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Real
  • Success

• I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Pride

• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
  • New York

• The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Care

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • War
  • Stupid

• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • Business
  • Lost

• The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Duty
  • Rewrite

• When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Up
  • Song
  • Singing

• Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

  

  James Howe
  • World
  • Hope
  • Serious

• We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

  

  Ken Thompson
  • Serious
  • Mistake

• It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Good
  • Important
  • Nice

• I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

  

  Douglas Kennedy
  • Serious
  • Popular