John F. Kennedy Quotes
If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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Drugs scared me.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.
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There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
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I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.
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I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
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Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
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None of these challenges can be solved quickly or easily. But all of them demand that we listen to one another and work together; that we focus on our common interests, not on occasional differences; and that we reaffirm our shared values, which are stronger than any force that could drive us apart. That is the work that we must carry on.
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Loonies speak their own language, like educated people.
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In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu as his kith and kin. That is probably the reason why Maulana Mahomed Ali, a great Indian but a true Muslim, preferred to be buried in Jerusalem rather than in India. (pp. 330-331)
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It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.
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My week beats your year.
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
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When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.
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The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.
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I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
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If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.
