Kevin Kelly Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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My father had very little formal education.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.
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When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
