John Sergeant Wise Quotes
The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.
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My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.
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The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
