John Ciardi Quotes
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
John Ciardi
Quotes to Explore
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
Zach Galligan
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
Frances O'Grady
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
Barry Sanders
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
Barry Diller
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
Dan Stevens
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We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered.
T.I.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
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Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
Margaret Heffernan
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Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The day will happen whether or not you get up.
John Ciardi
