Kenneth Cranham Quotes
The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
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While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.
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The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give. Decide well in advance, before the pressure is on, what you stand for.
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The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
