Marge Kennedy Quotes
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.
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We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
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I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
