John Gunther Quotes

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

John Gunther

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 30, 1901 - May 29, 1970

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For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.

Joe Mantegna

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I'm pretty peaceful and calm and sweet.

Jeff Perry

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People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Michael A. Stackpole

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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

John Updike

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We're not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

Stephen Curry

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The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

Tom Parker Bowles

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I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

Robert Atkins

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There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

Mary H.K. Choi

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The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

Marvin Sapp

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Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy.

Luis Figo

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I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.

Luke Evans

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It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

Arthur Phillips

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