Jack Kemp Quotes
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
