Benjamin Wittes Quotes
There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
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Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
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I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.
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I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.
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Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
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I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
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My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.
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There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.
