Don Kardong Quotes
There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
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An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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Instead of deluding public opinion with a notion that a sufficient application of force will provide a remedy, a wiser course would be to set about taking such steps as may be the means of recovering that consent without which society in Ireland cannot exist...an offer should be made to the Irish conceived on the most generous lines.
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I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.
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I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
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There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
