John F. Kerry Quotes

For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

John F. Kerry

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Think
  • Career
  • Acting

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Water
  • Morning

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Fascinated
  • Wrote

• Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Way
  • Before
  • DNA

• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Happy
  • Nervous
  • Eat

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Philosophy

• President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

  

  David Petraeus
  • World
  • War
  • Style

• What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing

• I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

  

  Luke Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • High
  • Today

• Our aim is not just to remove our uniquely incompetent Government from office-it is to destroy the socialist fallacies-indeed the whole fallacy of socialism-that the Labour Party exists to spread.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Party

• For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • May
  • War
  • Option