Edward R. Murrow Quotes
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.
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When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
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My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
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We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
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My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
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The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
