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He was a mentor to me. He always encouraged me to do all I could in school. He told me I had talents. He told me I could do anything I wanted,


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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 The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE