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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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
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The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
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I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
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Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!
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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.
