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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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.
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May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
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He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
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We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
