Allan Gurganus Quotes

'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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I don't want to be a celebrity.

Jerry Springer

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I don't have any intention to be anti-gay or to persecute the gay community.

Ander Crenshaw

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Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.

Matthew Desmond

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Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

John Wanamaker

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The most important family value of all is time with your family.

Tom Perez

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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

Michael Kinsley

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Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Louis Sullivan

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I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

Jules Shear

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In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.

Christopher Voss

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Every time I baked cookies for people as a kid, it made me so happy. But when I was in culinary school and working in fine-dining restaurants, that was not a thing.

Christina Tosi

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Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

Brian Celio

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I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Brad Garrett

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