D. V. Ager Quotes

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

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• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Environment

• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Time
  • May
  • She

• Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Career

• The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Joy

• Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Cutting

• It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Farmer

• A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • War
  • Son

• To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Country
  • Democracy

• We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • World
  • Women
  • Family

• The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica

• It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Earth
  • Stop

• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• I like to know what's in my food and in my drinks. It's really important for me.

  

  Darby Stanchfield
  • Important
  • Food

• Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.

  

  John McCain
  • World
  • American
  • War

• I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Women

• My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

  

  Joan Jett
  • World
  • Parents

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • War
  • Soldier
  • Veteran

• I'm not an expert here. I'm talking about an experience I had rather than something I intellectually worked out. From what I can gather, the original mystery religions are still, largely, as the name suggests, mysterious. But they are associated with intoxication, fertility and resurrection.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Experience
  • Talking
  • Mysterious

• Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Reading
  • Constitution
  • Aspiration

• Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Feel
  • Needs
  • Shame

• Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

  

  D. V. Ager
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