Elmer Davis Quotes
Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.
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Under Armour is not about the Left or the Right. It's about moving forward together.
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Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.
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There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
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Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
