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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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.
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Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.
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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.
