X. J. Kennedy Quotes
I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
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When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.
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I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
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I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air.
