Jack Kemp Quotes
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.
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I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
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It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
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I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
