John Ciardi Quotes
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I never left doo wop.
Aaron Neville -
Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
Zach Anner -
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
Federico Fellini -
There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
Vince Carter -
If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
Zig Ziglar
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
Ed Royce -
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
Fat Joe -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
Madison Marlow -
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale -
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
Dan Buettner
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I will run against anybody.
Usain Bolt -
I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe -
It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
Nalo Hopkinson -
Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
Tad Williams -
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Aaron Allston -
History will treat me right.
Ralph Abernathy
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Here is a pragmatic and idealistic suggestion, White America! When you see my kids on the playground, on the street, can you remember to smile at them as you would smile at your own? Because believe me as your better angel already does they are every bit as lovable.
Emily Raboteau -
387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.
Poul Anderson -
I favor initiating some action, but I await final conclusions from our legal services,"
Charlie McCreevy -
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
John Ciardi