Kevin Young Quotes
The first rule of influence is that there isn't any. The second rule of influence is that it is everywhere.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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Health food makes me sick.
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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
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The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.
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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
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I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.
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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
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You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
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When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.
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I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
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No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.
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The first rule of influence is that there isn't any. The second rule of influence is that it is everywhere.
