John F. Kennedy Quotes
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.
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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
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So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.
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I was very sexual from a very young age.
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I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.
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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
