Daniel Ellsberg Quotes

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

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• I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Activity

• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Integrity

• Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Home
  • Help
  • Attention

• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Think
  • Muscle

• If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Best
  • Worry

• You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Important
  • You
  • Blessed

• I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Hear

• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Different
  • Development
  • Percent

• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Good
  • College
  • Summer

• Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Why
  • Art
  • Stop

• Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Today
  • Like
  • Variety

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Got

• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Body

• Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Done
  • Outrageous

• A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Public

• The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Family
  • Taken

• And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Conversation
  • Foolish
  • Criminal

• Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

  

  Peter Murphy Bauhaus
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Romantic

• We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Young
  • Foolish
  • Arrogant