John F. Kennedy Quotes

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

John F. Kennedy

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• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Team
  • Working

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Happiness is an inside job.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Job
  • Happiness
  • Inside

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Good
  • Important
  • Skills

• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Words
  • Funny

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Holocaust
  • Last

• People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Walking

• My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Vinyl

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Life
  • Style

• I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.

  

  Ellen McLaughlin
  • Work
  • Courage
  • Drama

• When I'm not working out, it's important to me to express the creative, girly side of my personality.

  

  Kelita Zupancic
  • Important
  • Personality
  • Girly

• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Great
  • Men
  • Children

• I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Freedom