John Dickerson Quotes

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

John Dickerson

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• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Free
  • Service

• The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Help
  • Ideas

• Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Just

• The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Back
  • Prime
  • Geology

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Angry

• I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Family
  • Man

• I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Constant

• You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Me
  • Reason

• I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Conscious

• There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Kind
  • Generation
  • Connected

• I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Learning

• His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society - more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. That was the grand vision that Nehru had.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Society
  • Religious
  • Vision

• The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, the minor key, to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • True

• I never had a huge circle of friends, so I really just tried to cherish and not take for granted the close friends I did have, who were really supportive and understanding.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Friends
  • Understanding

• People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

  

  Andrew Scott
  • People

• I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Prayer
  • Neglect
  • Single Day

• You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Father
  • Husband
  • Adults

• For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.

  

  Bing Gordon
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Parents

• One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

  

  John Dickerson