Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 6, 1888 - November 18, 1969

Topics

LearningTodayTimeMoneyToughOwn

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

Andrew Dost

WhyStrawberriesDeliciousBerries

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

Robert Jay Lifton

WorkDaySayWhateverThroughCarry

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

Robert Higgs

AppreciationDependLittleModern

When people are getting on me for being at a Ranger game at 7 o'clock at night, they don't see what I've done between yoga, Pilates, workout, thrown, ran, done all my work by 5 o'clock, ate, and then I went to the game. Nobody is seeing that. Nobody is commenting on that.

Matt Harvey

WorkPeopleMeNightGameSeeing

We can use films and art to express what is happening around all of us.

Stephanie Sigman

ArtUsHappeningUseAroundExpress

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

Steven Seagal

Common SenseImportantSayRight

I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

Steve Vai

FamilyCoolPlaySaidCurlyKid

You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

Mary Beard

GenerationYouYearsPatriarchy

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

Julia Child

CookingBetterThanThinks

I don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off.

Jon Gruden

NegativeThinkWantSittingAnswers

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

Christopher Hampton

MyselfDayFindNothingGiveOff

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Christopher Hitchens

WorkProgressAmazingGeneration

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