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 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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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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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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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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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'
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Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
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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.
