Mary Schmich Quotes

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Mary Schmich

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The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.

John Burnside

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How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

John C. Maxwell

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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

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You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

John Oates

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As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.

John Lithgow

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Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

John M. McHugh

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Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

John McWhorter

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Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.

Robin Leach

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When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

Mike Posner

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People want a little excitement. I tell the truth, but I do it theatrically.

Mike Cernovich

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God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He is still loving on His people.

Monica Johnson

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At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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