Paul S. Kemp Quotes
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
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I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
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A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I never try to sit down with a moral because kids smell that and run.
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Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
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With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.
