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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In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.
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I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
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I've never been adamant about joining Twitter; I have nothing against it; I'm not one of those people who hates Twitter. I think it's great for what it is, but right now - I don't know. I just like to keep the mystery.
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They cherish his mem'ry, and them as sell picturs of his birthplace, etc., make it prof'tible cherishin' it.
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Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?
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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
