John Gunther Quotes
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.
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I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.
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In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation - that's why we're going slow.
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
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If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
