Jay Parini Quotes
The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
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I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
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A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
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The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.
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The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.
