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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When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
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Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.
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... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
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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.
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I defend non-criminal detention.
