Cynthia Kenyon Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
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I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
