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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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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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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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
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Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.
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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
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A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.
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I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things.
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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
