Eugene Kennedy Quotes
As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'
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We tend to treat eating and diets as one size fits all. But the human body is very personalized.
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I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
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You always go back to what's been successful when under pressure but I'd be surprised if Clive was interested in the job. Unless, of course, he's got power over everything.
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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
