John Grogan Quotes

Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.

John Grogan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1957

Topics

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My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

Jill Lepore

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When I was younger, the idea of the bad boy was appealing, but then I grew up and realized that stable people are more fulfilling. Bad boys need more time to themselves. I want to be in a relationship with someone who knows how to take care of himself and is therefore able to take care of me. That way, we can put each other first.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

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From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

Stella Young

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To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

Sonia Rykiel

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S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Simon Fuller

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Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Tom Shales

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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Ruth Negga

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Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Ross MacDonald

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I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

Luke James

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I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

Little Milton

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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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