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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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
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Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
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My mum wouldn't do a film for money. She does it as a passion. That's why she's involved in things that are so brilliant. She really cares about what she does.
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
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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.
