John Dickerson Quotes
During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
Queen Rania of Jordan
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
Wangari Maathai
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
Abel Korzeniowski
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
Kate Winslet
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
Halima Aden
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
Gary Lineker
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
Malcolm X
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.
Warren G. Harding
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lf l am not mistaken, the words 'art' and 'artist' did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.
M. C. Escher
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Excellent in every way around the glens The two skilful ones make inquiries
Taliesin
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
Seneca the Younger
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You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.
C. S. Lewis
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
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When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.
Bikram Choudhury
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One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.
John Dickerson