John W. Gardner Quotes
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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To survive is to win.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
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Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
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We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
