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Jack Kemp Quotes

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

Jack Kemp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 13, 1935 - May 2, 2009

Topics

Effort Stand Reward Labor Taxes

If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we can.

Andris Nelsons

Good Good Things Deep Humanity Back

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Robert H. Schuller

You Want Will Never Realize Reason

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Life Myself Confused My Life Write

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

Andy Warhol

Love People Night Think House White

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

John Thorn

Life Me Know Nothing Classmates

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

Steve Mann

Going Accountable Actions Argue Else

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

Robert Dallek

Letters Never Almost He Them Wrote

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

Rod Stewart

Life Family Day End Of The Day End

Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.

Rithy Panh

Life Culture Football Want Without

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

Donal Logue

Where Well Did Then Sundance Really

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Denis Johnson

Truth Crazy Facts Language Trying

After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.

Chris Adrian

School Smart People Mom Reading