John Dickerson Quotes
Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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I had to stay off Twitter for a little bit, and I had to not read the comments or look at my at mentions because I was getting a lot of nasty comments. At the end of the day, it does get to you, and it does make me sad.
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I believe that robotic thinking helps precision of psychological thought, and will continue to help it until psychophysiology is so far advanced that an image is nothing other than a neural event, and object constancy is obviously just something that happens in the brain. That time is still a long way off, and in the interval I choose to sit cozily with my robot, squeezing his hand and feeling a thrill -- a scientist's thrill -- when he squeezes mine back again.
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Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
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Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?
