Kemp Quotes & Sayings

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued. — Jack Kemp

I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. — Gary Kemp

Psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl, stated, ... man is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! — Alice A. Kemp

Words cannot express my disappointment that I must pass on the invitation to once again witness your gelatinous buttocks swaying as you try to climb a greased pole naked in search of athletic glory. Sadly, the last occasion on which I witnessed this event had a deleterious effect on my psyche for which I am still seeking the attention of a therapist.
A.C. Kemp as Lady Arabella Snark — A.C. Kemp

The Bible itself has a hundred theologies.

(Karl Barth, January 27, 1959 to English Colloquia in Basel) — Raymond Kemp Anderson

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off. — Ross Kemp

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

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

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

I think every man should have a pair of boots. They're really sexy. Leather boots, cowboy boots, it depends. — Kemp Muhl

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce. — Jack Kemp

I can't hide my feelings. — Jack Kemp

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government. — Jack Kemp

Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out. — Laekan Zea Kemp

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters. — Jack Kemp

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas. — Gary Kemp

If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn't end up with just some trendy coffee addiction. I'd end up in a mini-coma, face down in the middle of the studio or on the floor of the community showers. — Laekan Zea Kemp

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

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

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired — Richard Kemp

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility
I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!
I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is
chilly for a man without clothes. — H.G.Wells

People don't exist in just the light or the dark. They exist in the contrast. In the shadows where the two overlap. — Laekan Zea Kemp

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A. — Matt Kemp

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people. — Jack Kemp

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

On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way. — Ross Kemp

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. — Gary Kemp

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate. — Gary Kemp

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest. — Ross Kemp

Because the truth was I was tired. I was tired of fighting but more importantly I was tired of losing, of being disappointed. — Laekan Zea Kemp

Demographics is destiny — Arthur Kemp

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me. — Matt Kemp

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

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. — Jack Kemp

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

Immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries. — Arthur Kemp

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do. — Ross Kemp

I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this. — Ross Kemp

It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect your jobs, 60 seconds to protect the services your family relies on. A lot is at stake during those 60 seconds. — Ross Kemp

Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not. — Arthur Kemp

Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out. — Kemp Muhl

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

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense. — Gary Kemp

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?' — Ross Kemp

My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky. — Kemp Muhl

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it. — Ross Kemp

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise — Jack Kemp

She stared up at Vader, unafraid."I hate you and everything you stand for" she said."But when I murdered, I murdered out of love"

Vader raised his blade, his breathing loud and steady. When he spoke, his voice was as deep and hollow as a funeral gong.
"I know precisely what you mean" he said and slashed. — Paul S. Kemp

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part. — Matt Kemp

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games. — Jack Kemp

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large. — Jack Kemp

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

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea. — Jack Kemp

Sergeant Axel Dane ordinarily opened the San Jose recruiting office at eight o'clock, but if he was a little late Corporal Kemp opened it, and Kemp was not likely to complain. Axel was not an unusual case. A hitch in the U.S. Army in the time of peace between the Spanish war and the German war had unfitted him for the cold, unordered life of a civilian. One month between hitches convinced him of that. Two hitches in the peacetime army completely unfitted him for war, and he had learned enough method to get out of it. The San Jose recruiting station proved he knew his way about. He was dallying with the youngest Ricci girl and she lived in San Jose. Kemp hadn't the time in, but he was learning the basic rule. Get along with the topkick and avoid all officers when possible. — John Steinbeck

When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and be nice because you don't know what kind of day they've had. You are going on holiday and they're stuck wherever they are. Be nice to them because they can re-route your baggage to wherever they feel like. — Ross Kemp

When I was young I had this blonde haircut that was shaved on one side with a rat tail and tram lines in it, but I don't really regret that. It was really elaborate but I was 12 and it looked cool. It was like what people in Iceland do. — Kemp Muhl

I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican. — Matt Kemp

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. — Jack Kemp

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops. — Kemp Muhl

When you think positive, good things happen. — Matt Kemp

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished. — Jack Kemp

I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood. — Gary Kemp

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

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

turning men into dribbling, fumbling jackasses and controlling the world and shit." "Controlling — Laekan Zea Kemp

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it. — Ross Kemp

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

Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum. — Jack Kemp

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region. — Arthur Kemp

I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I'm still there. — Ross Kemp

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

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness. — Jack Kemp

I realise I'm behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much. — Mandy Wiener

Your life is the same wherever you go. — Gary Kemp

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

I love my children unconditionally. — Gary Kemp

Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate. — David Stockman

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed. — Ross Kemp

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. — Jack Kemp

My life is routine-obsessed. I'm OCD, and if I'm not at home, I always get up early and exercise. I don't crash and burn at night, not these days, so early-ish to bed. At home, I have three small boys who bring me down to earth with school runs and endless meals. — Gary Kemp

Prostitution is the apotheosis of capitalism. — Jonathan Kemp

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration. — Jack Kemp

It's nice to be needed. — Jack Kemp

Don't give pain to others. — Gary Kemp

I have chosen education as a bridge to understanding! — Teresa R. Kemp

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

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all. — Gary Kemp

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich. — Matt Kemp

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system. — Jack Kemp

Other than the Emperor, only Vader knew the false names were ancient Sith words that meant "death" and "fate. — Paul S. Kemp

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses. — Jack Kemp

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out. — Jack Kemp

Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste. — Kemp Muhl

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

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

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview. — Ross Kemp

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance. — Jack Kemp

But maybe I could give myself something too - permission to keep trying. Even when it felt like it was all for nothing. Even if trying was all I ever did, I shouldn't stop. — Laekan Zea Kemp