Charles W. Pickering Quotes

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
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  • Change

• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
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• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
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• A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

  

  Tamera Mowry
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• Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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• Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  

  Iris Chang
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  • Injustice

• What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

  

  Zach Galligan
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• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
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• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
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• Among directing teams, you find a high percentage of brothers. You need the ability to compromise. With siblings, you've grown up with a pattern that, yeah, every once in a while you have to give in for the greater good, for the family collective.

  

  Anthony Russo
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• History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
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• It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• Lemaitre has been one of my inspirations ever since I started making music.

  

  Kygo
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• The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

  

  Charles W. Pickering
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