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A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a great original thought on this.


John Tierney

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MARY ROACH We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we ha...
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J. D. SALINGER That's something we all kind of talked about when we started doing this. It's something that's reall...
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ELISHA CUTHBERT I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do som...
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DANIEL MURNER This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
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LEE PERRY When I was a kid, there were no eagles here. We really have done something good in leaving this lega...
MARYBETH GARRIGAN I think John would have thought (this premiere) was really cool. He loved movies. He would have been...
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DAN CASTELLANETA It really hits home when you see something like this. Lots of people have lost their whole existence...
FRANZ BACHMANN When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.
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JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN