Jim Lehrer Quotes

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• Hits and flops are overrated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hits
  • Overrated
  • Flops

• When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Father
  • Wrong

• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • You
  • Without

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• You discover yourself through the research of your work.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Research

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Today
  • Legal

• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Speed
  • Fast
  • Competitors

• Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • You
  • Understand
  • Said

• It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Focus

• There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • War
  • Culture
  • Law

• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Energy
  • Angry
  • Used

• You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Angry