Elmer Davis Quotes
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
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Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?
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I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.
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We need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country. ... We need law and order in our country.
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When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
