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

• Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Nature

• You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dream
  • Care
  • Imagine

• With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Book
  • Start

• 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