John Griffin Carlisle Quotes

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

John Griffin Carlisle

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• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

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• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

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• My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

  

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• When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

  

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• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

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• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

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• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

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• We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.

  

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• In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

  

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• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  

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• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

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• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

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• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

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• I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

  

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• Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

  

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• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  

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• In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

  

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• I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?

  

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• If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

  

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• I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

  

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• I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

  

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• Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

  

  John Griffin Carlisle