John Dickerson Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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The best thing about it is getting it all out there. Whatever you have on your chest, it just feels really good to talk to somebody who you have no ties to... so I think therapy is great. I think everyone should try it out.
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You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.
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My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
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In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
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Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.
