Bill Dedman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
-
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
-
Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
-
I can stay up watching TV so late.
-
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
-
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
-
I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
-
As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
-
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
-
Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
-
When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
-
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
-
We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
-
As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
-
Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
-
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
-
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
-
A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
-
I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.
-
For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.
-
As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
Charles B. Rangel -
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
-
Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.
