John W. Gardner Quotes

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1912 - February 16, 2002

Topics

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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Jesus Christ

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To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

Jerrod Carmichael

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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

John Kasich

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I thought I'd be president of the United States.

John McCain

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In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

Michael Graves

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If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they'll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.

Steven Crowder

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Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

Skylar Grey

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The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.

Michael Robotham

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I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

Lou Adler

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I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.

Josh Trank

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I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

Corazon Aquino

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America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.

Anthony Scaramucci

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