Alexandra Kerry Quotes
In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
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In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
