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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as soon as you pull that character out and out someone else in, it doesn't work.
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You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.
