E. J. Dionne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
-
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
-
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
-
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
-
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
-
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
-
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
-
How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
-
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
-
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
-
I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
-
The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
-
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
-
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
-
The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
-
More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
-
It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
-
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
-
What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
-
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
-
It's a beautiful thing how happy you can be with a few friends, some beaten up guitars, a fire, and a couple of fields.
-
I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.
