John W. Gardner Quotes
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.
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My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
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We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.
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I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
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Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
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If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
