John Ciardi Quotes
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
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One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
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You don't want to see me all the time. You get bored.
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I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.
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To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.
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When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.
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The road to profits is paved with unfair advantages.
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The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
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So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.
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People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.
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No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
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Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.
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The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
