Benjamin Wittes Quotes
We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the integrity of his department's work in overseeing these programs are assailed over a protracted period of time.

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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I love apple juice.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
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Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by night. We shall forget by day, except The moments when we choose to play The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
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Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.
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Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
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Spreading my love and extending my hand is what life's all about.
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All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
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For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
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We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the integrity of his department's work in overseeing these programs are assailed over a protracted period of time.