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 look for the John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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Social media, for me, is about interacting with people who follow my career. I don't think my relationship has anything to do with my career.
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I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
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There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.
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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?
