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 -
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 -
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
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I feel like everybody that's successful owes everything to God.
Ray J -
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.
Chip R. Bell -
I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.
Arnaz Battle -
I'm a fast player and I thought that I would fit in because they defend well and break.
Gelson Martins -
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I defend non-criminal detention.
Benjamin Wittes