Benjamin Wittes Quotes
In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I was born with an evil face.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
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Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
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I love to travel, and I think being whisked away somewhere for a vacation is a pretty amazing date. But, I'm really into the basic movie and dinner. It's not where you are but who you're with that really matters.
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When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.
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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
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I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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No one seemed to understand that she hadn’t chosen to be standoffish. That was simply a byproduct of what she’d been through.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
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In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.
