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'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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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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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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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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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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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've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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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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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
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The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'
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Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
