Douglas Kirkland Quotes
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
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For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
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Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
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Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
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Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.
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I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.
