Eugene Kennedy Quotes
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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The beginning is always today.
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It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
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I'm not an everyday fragrance person usually. I wouldn't put fragrance on before dropping off my kids or going to the gym.
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Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.
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The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.
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I didn't really have the most healthy of upbringings.
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In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes - homosexuality, sexual disease, and death - about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.
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Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
