Benjamin Wittes Quotes

I defend non-criminal detention.

Benjamin Wittes

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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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Question

• 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
  • Important
  • Step
  • Test

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• I profoundly regret the circumstances in which we had to hold this meeting.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Regret

• 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
  • Moment
  • Generation
  • Neglect

• 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
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Challenge

• One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Live
  • Learn
  • Read

• 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
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Childhood

• You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.

  

  Allen Crawford
  • Stage
  • Statements
  • Equally

• I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Writing
  • Opinions
  • Unprintable

• I hate optimism out of insensitivity.

  

  Zuoxiao Zuzhou
  • Optimism
  • Insensitivity

• Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

  

  Bill Bailey
  • Jokes
  • Walks
  • Format

• We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.

  

  Ahmad Shah Massoud
  • Tolerance
  • Islam
  • Defend

• I want my country to be independent, always independent. I have to defend my convictions as a patriot and as a national leader. I have done my best, but as a human being I cannot be perfect, nobody is perfect.

  

  Norodom Sihanouk
  • Country
  • Independent
  • Defend

• Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

  

  Steven Seagal
  • Defend
  • Confrontation
  • Defy

• Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • You
  • Understand

• In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.

  

  Anders Petersen
  • Black
  • Knowledge
  • Experiences

• I defend non-criminal detention.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Defend
  • Detention