Caroline Kennedy Quotes

I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • World
  • Think
  • Eye

• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Fire

• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Politically Correct

• A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Marriage

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Time
  • Important
  • American

• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Bananas

• The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Know
  • Stress
  • Percent

• I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • First
  • Poem

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • Audience

• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Mistake
  • Sexist
  • Intentional

• People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • Great

• We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Work
  • Sales

• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Presentation

• I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.

  

  Denise Richards
  • Home
  • Travel

• A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Human
  • Considered
  • Retreat

• I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
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