John Sergeant Wise Quotes

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

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• Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Collaboration

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Find
  • Questions
  • Sit

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• 'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • School
  • City

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Training
  • Win
  • Again

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
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• I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

  

  Taye Diggs
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• In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

  

  Flume
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  • Home
  • Feel

• I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Audio

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Family
  • Money
  • Expectation

• I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

  

  Jesmyn Ward

• I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Age

• We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Hurt

• We can switch on the light at any time and make a sandwich. A great amount of people eat around the clock.

  

  Michael W. Young
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  • Around
  • Sandwich

• I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

  

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