David Corn Quotes

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

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• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Television

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Light
  • Single

• I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Sleep
  • Bed
  • Meat

• Everyone is capable of everything.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Everyone
  • Capable

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Way
  • Interesting
  • Know

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • World
  • Die
  • Start

• I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
  • Very
  • Lived

• My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Emotion

• Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Idea
  • Behind

• It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Morning

• For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • War

• If I had not discovered the music, I would probably have been in prison today, if I had lived until now. At the same time, if I had not gone to school, I would not have discovered the music.

  

  Steve Angello Swedish House Mafia
  • Music
  • School
  • Prison

• As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Player

• You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Issues
  • Neighborhood
  • Terms

• The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Revolution
  • Capitalism

• This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

  

  David Corn
  • Important
  • Evidence
  • Assertion