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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Good enough is never good enough.
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The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
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A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
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I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.
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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.
