Alison Louise Kennedy (A. L. Kennedy) Quotes
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.
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How can you tell at the start what you can give away and what you must hold to your heart. What is the well and what is a cup. Some people get drunk up.
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Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.
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We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
