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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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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Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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We've all been victims. We've all been perpetrators. And, so there is a group that is still experiencing that.
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
