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.
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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.
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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.
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I profoundly regret the circumstances in which we had to hold this meeting.
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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.
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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.
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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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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.
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You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.
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I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.
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I hate optimism out of insensitivity.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
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Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.
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The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.
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Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
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I defend non-criminal detention.
