John F. Kerry Quotes
I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.
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I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.
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Improv is mostly what I've studied.
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Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.
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I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.
