Jean Kerr Quotes
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
