Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes
Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.
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Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.
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Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.
