Kevin Connolly Quotes
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
