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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Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.
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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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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
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We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.
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I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.
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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
