X. J. Kennedy Quotes
As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
