John F. Kennedy Quotes
We live under majority rule and if that majority is not well educated in its responsibilities, the whole Nation suffers.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
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In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.
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I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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We live under majority rule and if that majority is not well educated in its responsibilities, the whole Nation suffers.
