Kevin Henkes Quotes
When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.
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What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
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When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!
