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.
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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.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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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.
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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.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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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.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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There is nothing beyond the world except what we see, no background to it except its particular history.
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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
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That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.
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It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.
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A new setting is amazing cause it's new for the team, and it's new for our characters. It's a breakaway from the normal deal. You get so tired, locked into a show for so many years. You get used to doing the same thing. A little shake-up and change is good.
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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
