David Ignatius Quotes

It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.

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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • People
  • Stand
  • View

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Day

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
  • Stage
  • Naked

• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Door
  • Moment

• When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Story

• I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • School
  • End
  • Connection

• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Now
  • Teenagers

• I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • World
  • Believe
  • Look

• I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Today

• Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Progress

• This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Many political experts have told me that nobody will vote for me because America is not ready for such decisive and dynamic leadership. They tell me these things, and I say nay to the negative nincompoops who never nourished the nihilistic nerve to name a novice to nail down the nomination.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • America
  • Political
  • Leadership

• He was going to die. His mind flinched back in horror from that, but it was still there, grinning, implacable. His body would rot under the ground, while delicious things were still happening in the sunlight.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Mind
  • Die

• Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

  

  Chris Hondros
  • Photography

• I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

  

  Richard Li
  • Creating
  • Products
  • Manufacturing

• Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Forever

• I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Country
  • Hand
  • Serious

• It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.

  

  David Ignatius