Bret Stephens Quotes
The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.
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Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.
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There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
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The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.
