Jim Lehrer Quotes
If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.
Jim Lehrer
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
Gary McCord
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Rani Mukerji
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
Mac Davis
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
Patricia MacLachlan
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I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
F. Murray Abraham
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
Hamza Yusuf
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La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
Anatole France
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My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles, respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.
Lily Collins
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
Zhang Jindong
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
Walter Kirn
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If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.
Jim Lehrer
