Jack Kemp Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
