Raymond Kelly (Raymond Walter Kelly) Quotes
I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
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Affluence means influence.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
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Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
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The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.
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I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.
