Daniel Schorr Quotes
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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No two wars are identical.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
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All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.
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Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.
