John Dickerson Quotes
Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
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Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
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Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.
