Benjamin Wittes Quotes
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
Felix Dennis -
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.
Valerie Plame -
After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.
Wayne Newton -
I profoundly regret the circumstances in which we had to hold this meeting.
Jack Straw -
I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
Alan Hansen -
Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.
Gabriel Campisi
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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.
Christopher Meledandri -
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.
Alfred Lansing -
I hate optimism out of insensitivity.
Zuoxiao Zuzhou -
Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
Bill Bailey -
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
Eve Best
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What I do know is that my number one job is being a mother. I can't imagine life without my children. My whole future feels bright knowing that they're in it.
Una Healy -
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
William Butler Yeats -
I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
Susana Martinez -
Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.
Napoleon III -
We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I defend non-criminal detention.
Benjamin Wittes