Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
Quotes to Explore
-
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
-
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
-
Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
-
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
-
Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
-
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
-
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
-
I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
-
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
-
Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
-
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
-
The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
-
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
-
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
-
I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
-
'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
-
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
-
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
-
Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
-
He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
-
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
