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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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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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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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.
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You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
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Everything's so different, moving so fast. People consume things at such a crazy rate like it's here today gone tomorrow onto the next thing. It’s such a competitive industry nowadays. There’s such an oversaturation of so many bands.
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When I go to New York, all the skycaps want my autograph.
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Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
