Jack Kingston Quotes
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
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With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
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To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
