Nigel Kennedy Quotes
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
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I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
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As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
