Jack Kemp Quotes

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Hand
  • Democracy

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Happens
  • Starbucks
  • Mostly

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Media

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Meaning

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• Music is like my security blanket.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Security
  • Blanket

• There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Child

• These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Personal
  • Open

• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• And she arose, and in that darkening room Stood lonely as a spirit of the night - Stood calm and fearless in the gathered night - And raised her eyes to heaven. There were tears Upon her face, but in her heart was peace. Peace that the world nor gives nor takes away!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • World
  • Heart
  • She

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.

  

  Don McLean
  • Happy

• I think a natural look is prettier. I rarely wear makeup, but we always wear sunscreen on our faces.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Makeup

• It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

  

  Donald Berwick
  • World
  • American
  • Health

• American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Long
  • American
  • Society