Jean Kerr Quotes
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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My friends are my family.
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When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
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I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
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It is never literally true that any form is meaningless and 'says nothing.' Every form in the world says something. But its message often fails to reach us, and even if it does, full understanding is often withheld from us. and, properly speaking, FORM IS THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF THIS INNER MEANING.
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The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.
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Even when I was very small, my mother treated me like a great novelist. She was like: 'Oh, I'm sitting at the breakfast table with Flaubert,' and would say, if she burned some food or was late arriving, 'Don't put this in your novel!'
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And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.
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Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.
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I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
