John F. Kennedy Quotes
But life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out.
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
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Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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But life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
