Joe Kennedy III Quotes
I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
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My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
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All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.
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I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.
