Top 100 Kemp's Quotes
#1. I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.
David Bowie
#2. War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.
Ross Kemp
#3. In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
Jack Kemp
#4. If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.
Matt Kemp
#5. It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.
Ross Kemp
#6. The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.
Paul S. Kemp
#7. If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.
Ross Kemp
#8. I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.
Jo Brand
#9. I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
Gary Kemp
#10. I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.
Matt Kemp
#11. Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
Jack Kemp
#12. The man's become inhuman, I tell you," said Kemp. "I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror - so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape - as I am sure I am talking to you. Our only chance is to be ahead. He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.
H.G.Wells
#13. I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.
Matt Kemp
#14. When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.
Matt Kemp
#15. I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion.
H.G.Wells
#16. In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are ... show them some love.
Matt Kemp
#17. We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
Gary Kemp
#18. Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.
Ross Kemp
#19. Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?
Paul S. Kemp
#20. the scarred face of a clone, the features an echo of so many faces from Vader's past. Rex. Cody. Fives. Echo. The roster of names moved through Vader's mind, each of them a trigger for a memory, each of them a ghost from his past.
Paul S. Kemp
#21. Diego thought about the night before, about the first breaths of morning chasing them from that old abandoned building, his arms twisted around her waist, finger's trembling against the soft skin of her hip as they stood within the ruins of a war Liliana would never understand.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#22. How devastated I am to say that I will not be present at your petite soiree on June 10th. Unfortunately, the exceptionally weak drinks you ordinarily serve at these occasions are not sufficient to dull my senses to your boyfriend's futile efforts to grope me in the hallway.
A.C. Kemp
#23. I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
Gary Kemp
#24. What were you saying about the way I smell?" "It's like hot testosterone on a fuckin' cracker, sprinkled with cinnamon." ~Mariss
Tyffani Clark Kemp
#25. When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.
Ross Kemp
#26. An apprentice was unquestioningly loyal until the moment he wasn't. Both Master and apprentice knew this.
Paul S. Kemp
#27. Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable. To them, he was a towering dark figure outside their chain of command who had emerged from nowhere and possessed powers they did not understand.
Paul S. Kemp
#28. I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
Gary Kemp
#29. Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
Gary Kemp
#30. Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
Gary Kemp
#32. Time is a false thing, meaningless when it's not attached to colors and people and light because in the dark there is nothing - only the stilted shadows of lie as they wait for the sun.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#33. Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she's [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.
Sean Lennon
#34. I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
Jack Kemp
#35. Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
Gary Kemp
#36. President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
Bob Beauprez
#37. I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.
Matt Kemp
#38. I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
Gary Kemp
#39. It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
Gary Kemp
#40. I am a murderer. I simply have not yet murdered. But I will, given time. The good in me is draining away into the dark hole in my center.
My soul is broken. I am broken.
I am my father's son.
Paul S. Kemp
#41. The Emperor said, "My name is Krataa, and this" - he gestured at Vader - "is Irluuk.
Paul S. Kemp
#42. If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you'll see results.
Matt Kemp
#43. I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'
Ross Kemp
#44. There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Jack Kemp
#45. There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
Jack Kemp
#46. I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.
Ross Kemp
#47. For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
Gary Kemp
#48. 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
#49. If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.
Matt Kemp
#50. Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.
Gary Kemp
#51. There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
Jack Kemp
#52. There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Jack Kemp
#53. You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
Jack Kemp
#54. Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Jack Kemp
#55. In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
Gary Kemp
#56. I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp
#58. I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.
Ross Kemp
#60. I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.
Matt Kemp
#61. Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
Jack Kemp
#62. The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp
#63. My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.
Kemp Muhl
#64. The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
Jack Kemp
#65. Peter Kemp observed that 'Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James's bowels.' As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails).
Anonymous
#66. Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
Tyffani Clark Kemp
#67. Pop music should be about young people.
Gary Kemp
#68. It's comfortable and not because he makes you happy - the guy's a total asshole - but because you already know what to expect. You already know how he'll hurt you.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#69. Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man.
H.G.Wells
#70. It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
Gary Kemp
#71. Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings - Aryn's feelings - were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.
Paul S. Kemp
#73. I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
Jack Kemp
#74. If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter
#75. I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers.
Matt Kemp
#76. Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.
Harry Kemp
#77. The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
Gary Kemp
#78. The armor separated him from the galaxy, from everyone, made him singular, freed him from the needs of the flesh, the concerns of the body that once had plagued him, and allowed him to focus solely on his relationship to the Force.
Paul S. Kemp
#79. Because for every girl in the history of girls there is always that one guy she can't seem to shake. Even though she knows he's not just bad for her but probably the worst thing.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#80. Jewelry is fine on some guys, but it's not for me.
Ross Kemp
#81. Other than the Emperor, only Vader knew the false names were ancient Sith words that meant "death" and "fate.
Paul S. Kemp
#82. I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.
Ross Kemp
#83. The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
Jack Kemp
#84. Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
Jack Kemp
#85. Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp
#86. I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.
Kemp Muhl
#87. Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.
Kemp Muhl
#88. asked Kemp. "Three or four hours - the cat. The bones and sinews and the fat were the last to go, and the tips of the coloured hairs. And, as I say, the back part of the eye, tough, iridescent
H.G.Wells
#90. one was afraid of the darkness itself. They were afraid of what was in it.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#91. I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.
Ross Kemp
#92. In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
Jack Kemp
#93. I have chosen education as a bridge to understanding!
Teresa R. Kemp
#94. All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Jack Kemp
#95. I think every man should have a pair of boots. They're really sexy. Leather boots, cowboy boots, it depends.
Kemp Muhl
#96. Giggles gave way to gasps when his face split into a grin, never mind that he was looking right at her. When he strode across the room and slumped languidly into the seat next to her, the whole room went silent.
Tyffani Clark Kemp
#97. I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp
#98. Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#99. Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
#100. I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Jack Kemp
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