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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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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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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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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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'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!
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Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
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In the beginning, me and my bandmates just did stuff on our own - we had smoke bombs, we'd dress as crazy and as weird as we possibly could, just to give ourselves a different ambience. But when we started making money, of course, the ideas started getting bigger. We were big fans of Broadway; we were like, "Man, when you go see a Broadway show, you just get pulled right out of reality; you're into their world for a two-hour period. It would be nice if we could do that onstage with a music concert".
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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.
