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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Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
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We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.
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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
