John F. Kennedy Quotes
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
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The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
