Eugene Kennedy Quotes

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Travels
  • Who

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Like
  • Easy
  • Coaching

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Driver

• I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Growing
  • Goals
  • Athlete

• Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

  

  Karel Capek
  • You
  • Passionate
  • Hear

• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Up
  • War
  • Problem

• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Hip Hop

• You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Worry
  • Fire
  • Code

• The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Food

• When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.

  

  Albert Houtum-Schindler
  • Matter
  • Customer
  • Acquired

• The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Environment
  • Holy
  • Baseness

• I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Position
  • State
  • Marginal efficiency

• The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Dead
  • Miss
  • Spectacle