John Gunther Quotes
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
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I'm not radical.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
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Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
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It's well documented that stop-and-go traffic wears more on a vehicle than consistent-speed highway driving. No matter our driving habits, we all know we must regularly maintain our car's vitals - oil, tires, brakes, etc. Similarly, our brains and bodies perform best with a mindful focus on tasks and a routine maintenance of healthy habits.
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
