John Delaney Quotes
Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
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When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
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WITHOUT EQUAL. Think about it. These words are even more powerful than the “Will to Win” or “#1”…ponder the feeling one gets from these words. I suggest you, embrace these words forever within your institution. And as you enlarge your circles around the world, make these two words your everyday life breath.
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Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
