Kevin Henkes Quotes
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
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We must understand that what Pascal said is true of every human being in the whole of space-time, ourselves included-'The last act is tragic, however pleasant all the comedy of the other acts. A little earth on our heads, and all is done with forever.'-understand it in our bones, so that we can live with it calmly if not serenely.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
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The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in my head. Nevertheless, I have been trying to elaborate some kind of representation.
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I like small, domestic stories.
