Eugene Kennedy Quotes
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.
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You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
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Cuando me conformo con nada es cuando me conformo de todo.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
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You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with.
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After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.
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Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.
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Patience is the best medicine.
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Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.
