John Gray Quotes
Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
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By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out.
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The secret to making money isn't working at a high-paying job, it’s finding creative solutions to people’s problems.
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Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.
