Jean Kerr Quotes
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
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I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
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Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'.
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Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
