John F. Kennedy Quotes

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

John F. Kennedy

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Science
  • Myself

• It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • People
  • You
  • Religion

• After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Award

• It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Resistance
  • Beat
  • Teeth

• The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Youth
  • Shapes

• I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Imagine
  • Living
  • Quite

• Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Appreciation

• Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • America
  • Help

• You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People

• I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • Goals

• I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons.

  

  Paula Garces
  • Heart

• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Political

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

  

  Kris Allen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Boy

• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • God
  • Study

• Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Band

• Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

  

  John F. Kennedy