Michael Gurian Quotes
Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.
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There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.
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It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
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You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude.
