Elmer Davis Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.
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A dense film of a conventional surfactant is quite impermeable. On the other hand, a dense film of Janus grains always has some interstices between the grains, and allows for chemical exchange between the two sides; 'the skin can breathe'. This may possibly be of some practical interest.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
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You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.
