Jack Kelley Quotes
I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again someday.
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I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
