L.A. Kennedy Quotes

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

What people should do is explain to their friends, to their neighbors how they feel when they confront the word n - - and why they feel the way they feel.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

I'm tired of chasing people.

We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

Hey Lord... Whatever I done... Don't strike me blind for another couple ah minutes.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.