Caroline Kennedy Quotes
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.
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Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
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I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
