John W. Gardner Quotes

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

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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Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

Jimmy Iovine

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My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.

John Gourley

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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott

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A hat trick in a derby is a special thing.

Mauro Icardi

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New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Simeon Strunsky

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Joseph Cook

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One of my favorite things to do when I wasn't competing was to watch the cruiserweights.

Diamond Dallas Page

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I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

Christopher Masterson

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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

Allan Gurganus

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We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

Alonzo Mourning

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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

William Jennings Bryan

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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