John Dickerson Quotes
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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I think TV shows have usurped films!
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.
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I've never been this loud personality. I don't dominate the room when I walk into it. I save that for stage.
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Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.
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Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.
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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
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Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.
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Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.
