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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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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Perhaps one of the few positive aspects of the coup is that it has discredited the claim that that that the state had been taken over by the Brotherhood under Morsi.
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Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.
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If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
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Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
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Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
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Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
