Eugene Kennedy Quotes

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Mean
  • Criticism
  • Just

• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mean
  • Sleep
  • Winter

• I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Reading

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Health
  • Day
  • Stronger

• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Live
  • Television
  • Radio

• The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Challenge

• We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • World
  • Rules

• I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • God
  • Illusion
  • Serving

• 'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• The I is the soul, which endures.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Soul

• Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Doing
  • Discover
  • Passionately

• I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Discover
  • Variety
  • I Wonder

• The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mind
  • Solitude
  • Tradition

• Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Dictate

• I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Intelligent

• As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Tradition
  • Discover
  • Bishops