John F. Kennedy Quotes
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.
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The original answer defines certain conditions, ... Anything else is a different question.
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When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
