David Folkenflik Quotes

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful

• One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • American
  • Tools
  • Accusation

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Look
  • Now

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Want
  • Space
  • Decision

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Up
  • War
  • Storm

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!

  

  Adam Green
  • Up
  • Work
  • Seasons

• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Shy
  • Burn
  • Dolly Parton

• If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Would
  • Been
  • Filmmaker

• My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Old

• Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Wall

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Christ
  • Mysteries
  • Enigma

• A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Kiss
  • Feel Good
  • Tiara

• When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • Destiny
  • Questions
  • Morality

• After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

  

  David Folkenflik
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