Douglas Kennedy Quotes
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
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Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.
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We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
