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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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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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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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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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 have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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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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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
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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.
