John Dickerson Quotes

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

John Dickerson

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• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Purpose
  • Ideas
  • Down

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Potential

• My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Science
  • Education

• Intentions count in your actions.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Actions
  • Count
  • Intentions

• I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Change

• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Power
  • Process

• If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • Fear

• Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Important

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • Broken

• The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

  

  Leon Foucault
  • Space
  • Moments
  • Forever

• I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Panic

• The sort of enjoyment that we all get from that voyeuristic impulse of looking into other people's house as we pass them, and the idea that there might be something sinister or strange going on in the houses we pass every day or in our neighborhood, is a very compelling idea.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • House

• As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Equal
  • Except

• I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

  

  John Dickerson