Pat Oliphant Quotes

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

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• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Society
  • Better

• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • God
  • Catholic
  • Anymore

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Gun

• To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Singer
  • Heritage
  • Wales

• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Power
  • Fall

• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Love
  • Heaven

• What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sight

• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Always

• I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Job
  • Best

• Everybody has their struggles.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Everybody
  • Struggles

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • She
  • Age
  • Best

• As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Ideas

• History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Advice
  • Prince
  • Shrewdness

• Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Indulgence

• I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

  

  Socrates
  • Know
  • Fool
  • Smarter

• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  

  Pat Oliphant
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