John F. Kennedy Quotes

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

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• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
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  • Long
  • Rage

• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • Think
  • Doing

• Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

  

  Vasily Grossman
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  • Live
  • Humanity

• I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

  

  Dane Cook
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  • Real
  • Know

• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
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  • Good
  • Long

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
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  • History
  • Feeling

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • You
  • Action
  • Idea

• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Long
  • Own

• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
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  • Career

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
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  • Economy
  • Admire

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
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  • Time
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• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Trying
  • Doubt

• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

  

  J. William Fulbright
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  • History

• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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  • Far

• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
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  • London

• I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

  

  M. J. Rose
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  • She
  • City

• Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Action
  • Activism
  • Mistrust

• If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • World

• I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Book
  • Cutting
  • Appreciation

• In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Doing

• Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Death

• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  

  John F. Kennedy
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  • Action