Eric Sevareid Quotes
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I'm very independent.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!
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Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.
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We don't want to burden individuals with unfair taxes.
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
