Jack Kemp Quotes
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.
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I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'
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When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
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It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.
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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
