Jeh Johnson Quotes
Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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I didn't arrive on the scene until after Jaco Pastorius had passed, but 'Three Views of a Secret' is a long-time favourite of mine.
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Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
