Ian Gardner Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this – who once has loved, loves never on earth again!
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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Forgiveness.
