Jack Kemp Quotes

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Jack Kemp

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• I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Mind
  • Alone

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Television

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Characters
  • Core
  • Ensemble

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
  • Competitive
  • Striving

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Success

• We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Ideas
  • Religious
  • Belief

• If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Politics
  • Roles
  • Economics

• When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Mother
  • Mean
  • Ideas

• We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Technology
  • Taken

• My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Passion
  • Ideas
  • Politics