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

• If you don't stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.

  

  Luke Benward
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Loyalty

• For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Voice
  • Jobs
  • Sound

• I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Trying
  • Agree
  • Admire

• I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Crush

• When I'm working in television, I've learned you've got to work fast. You don't have time to rehearse; you don't have time to just mess around. You've got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Veteran
  • Experts
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