Benjamin Wittes Quotes
As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
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Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.
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As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!
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In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.
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I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
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It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.
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President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either. We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to our problems.
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If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.
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There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me anddirected at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.
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As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.
