Jay Parini Quotes

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

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I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

Jim Kelly

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The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

John Bright

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I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.

Anna Kendrick

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As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

Jeffrey Kluger

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As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Jeff Greenfield

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My motivation at the moment is around knowing how it feels to turn a business around, and I can't wait to have that feeling again.

Steve Easterbrook

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The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

Steve Jurvetson

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Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Tucker Carlson

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Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Travis Bradberry

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Hillary Clinton essentially offers a third Obama term. And the role is perfect for her. She championed 'Obamacare' because years earlier she had all but invented it.

Mike Pence

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The cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

Michelle Alexander

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History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Julia Bacha

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