John W. Gardner Quotes
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.
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I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.
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I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
