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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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas the West has primarily been shaped by its experience of nation, China has been moulded by its sense of civilisation.
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People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.
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Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?
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What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.
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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.
