Clark Kerr Quotes
The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.
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My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.
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The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
