Raymond Kelly (Raymond Walter Kelly) Quotes
A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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I'm not a negative person.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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I think a lot of people have the idea that all I do is dunk and all I do is make layups.
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If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008.
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In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'
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Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
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The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.
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No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
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I think at a certain point we a little bit forgot that it was a pot show. I think I said something to Harry Elfont, around Episode 7 of mary and Jane, I was like, "We have a pot show. Nobody is smoking any weed." There is literally a shot in the season finale where everybody lights up at the same time. I was like, "I feel like we are not honoring our concept." It just became a show. It became a show about these two girls doing this crazy thing and getting into all these adventures and it was really not about the weed.
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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
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A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
