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John F. Kelly Quotes

One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1950

Topics

Day You Uniform One Day Never Out

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

Three Garbage First Two Little

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

Teacher Me Voice Kind More First

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Nature Patience Gardening Grace Slow

My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.

Trombone Shorty

Brother Influence Grandfather Biggest

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.

Good Best You Wrong Being Proving

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

Rufus Wainwright

Father Myself Guitar Player Consider

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

Door Said Movies Boy Horror Next

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

Work Good Man Long Body Kind

I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.

City Farmer Back Chicken Santa Bay

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job.

Live Job Me Society Someone Write

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Brain Body Kind May Who Organism

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

I Can Always Ball Serve Well Shot

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