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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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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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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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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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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New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.
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Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
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This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends-first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each. (123).
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We take death to reach a star
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Build a quantum computer and problems long dismissed as hopeless would melt away. Imagine tapping a fundamental force of nature, not for the purpose of moving around matter but for moving around numbers—explosions of information. Quantum computing would be to ordinary computing what nuclear energy is to fire.
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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?
