Kent Quotes - Page 3

• I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

  Frank Woolley

  Opportunity, Records, Cricket

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• Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Political, Revolution, States

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• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  Dav Pilkey

  Notebook, Children, Silly

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Race, Views, Coward

  "Fictional character: Bill". "Kill Bill: Vol. 2", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Ideas, Greek

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, March 20, 1989.

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• On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Stars, Adventure, Opportunity

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• Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.

  Joe Shuster

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

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• Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

  John Gielgud

  Luck, Sides, Deaf

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• My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

  Dylan Lauren

  Phones, Call Me, Phone Booth

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• I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.

  James G. Frazer

  Philosophy, Men, Sight

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed.

  Jerry Siegel

  Crush, Girl, School

  "In the beginning" by Jerry Siegel, 1983.

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• The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

  Rod Parsley

  Phones, Baptism, Different

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• Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Country, Book, Names

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• Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.

  Gene Chandler

  Herbs, All Time, Humans

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• Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

  Sue Townsend

  Father, Hair, Hands

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

  Frank Woolley

  Team, Winning, Toss

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• My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Real, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Would Be, Ponies, Estates

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.

  Michael Chabon

  Phones, Editors, Houdini

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Expectations, Accepted

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muir’s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Father, Real, America

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