George F. Kennan Quotes
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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It's those damn critics again.
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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
