Charles Krauthammer Quotes
Obama’s NASA budget perfectly captures the difference between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons, Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there.
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A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.
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I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.
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Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made.
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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
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Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.
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A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.
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Obama’s NASA budget perfectly captures the difference between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons, Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.
