John Lone Quotes
I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.John Lone
Quotes to Explore
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs -
The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
Gary Valentine -
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight -
I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
Naomi Judd -
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
Daniel D. Palmer -
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann -
In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
Naomi Scott -
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz -
I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
Eric Lynn Wright
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
Zac Goldsmith -
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
E. F. Benson -
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
Ed Westwick -
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
Marianne Faithfull
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
I like to wake up at six o'clock in the morning so I have a very long morning, so I have time to meditate. I can really tell that it makes a difference - the days I don't have meditation and the days when I do.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
Mallory Jansen -
Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
David Brock -
I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
John Lone