John Dickerson Quotes
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.
