John Dickerson Quotes

Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Religion

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

  

  Carl Forti
  • World
  • Help
  • Him

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Hope

• I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Father
  • Football

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Movie
  • Angel
  • Bike

• Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Louisiana
  • Racists

• I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Guy
  • Question

• It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.

  

  Common
  • People
  • Music
  • Responsibility

• I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

  

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Together
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Sports