John Dickey Quotes
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
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Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.
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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
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Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
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After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
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We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.
