Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes

We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Wisdom
  • Performance
  • Measure

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
  • Gun

• Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • You
  • Special

• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Me
  • Talk
  • Conspiracy

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Me
  • Rock

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• I believe in my music.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • School
  • Age
  • Day

• Watching DBSK and Super Junior brought me up to be a singer.

  

  Zelo
  • Up

• Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Help
  • Mother

• There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • God
  • Believe
  • Opportunities