Benjamin Wittes Quotes

We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.

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• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Easy
  • Internet

• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Country
  • Help
  • Problem

• I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Like

• I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Good
  • Worry

• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Book
  • Looking
  • Back

• Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Community
  • English

• Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do.

  

  Jerry Herman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Friends

• The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  

  Lucretia Mott
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

  

  John Grant
  • Music

• Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Every rule should be broken at least one time.

  

  Poppy Montgomery
  • Time
  • Broken

• The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • She
  • Mother

• Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

  

  Jenny Agutter

• That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks, And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.

  

  John Heywood
  • Sky

• Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

  

  John W. Thompson
  • World
  • Work
  • Job

• Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Know
  • Grotesque
  • Wipe

• There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Bad

• President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

  

  David Letterman
  • Thinking
  • American
  • War

• We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Thinking
  • Whistleblower