Cate Kennedy Quotes
… a house on fire is a perfect description for what seems to be happening now: these flickering small resentments licking their way up into the wall cavities; this faint, acrid smell of smoke. And suddenly, before you know it, everything threatening to go roaring out of control.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
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When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.
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Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?
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I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.
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I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
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We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.
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After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.
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SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.
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My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.
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Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.
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I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
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… a house on fire is a perfect description for what seems to be happening now: these flickering small resentments licking their way up into the wall cavities; this faint, acrid smell of smoke. And suddenly, before you know it, everything threatening to go roaring out of control.
