John F. Kennedy Quotes
A copy of the statement I am making tonight concerning developments in Cuba and the reaction of my Government thereto has been handed to your Ambassador in Washington. In view of the gravity of the developments to which I refer, I want you to know immediately and accurately the position of my Government in this matter.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
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Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
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Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
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If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman. … Don't pray. Learn to use guns.
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I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me 'sir.'
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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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I hate all sidekicks.
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I was skinny and black and didn't play sports. And I was bullied.
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Who knows what the right time to get married is?
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Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
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We also honour the great Che Guevara, whose revolutionary exploits, including on our own continent, were too powerful for any prison censors to hide from us. The life of Che is an inspiration to all human beings who cherish freedom. We will always honour his memory.
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A copy of the statement I am making tonight concerning developments in Cuba and the reaction of my Government thereto has been handed to your Ambassador in Washington. In view of the gravity of the developments to which I refer, I want you to know immediately and accurately the position of my Government in this matter.
