Jim Lehrer Quotes

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Jim Lehrer

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ProblemsDebateMoreActiveSystem

It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.

Jenny Lewis

LoveGoodHateYourselfI AmPeople

You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

John McAfee

LoveHateSomeoneYouAppleWill

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

MyselfPeopleIdeasPlacePerson

Who have I been starstruck by in real life? One of the weirdest ones was, when we were making 'Cry-Baby,' David Nelson from 'The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet.' I couldn't believe he was sitting in my living room. Certainly Patricia Hearst. Tab Hunter. A lot of the stars I've worked with, when I first got them.

John Waters

LifeStarsBelieveLivingSitting

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Silvan Shalom

CommunityWorldRoadPartyWantMap

I'd like to get back home to Nova Scotia more, but thankfully, with technology you can call and text and FaceTime. But physically being in Toronto or Nova Scotia... there's nothing like it.

Diego Klattenhoff

HomeTechnologyYouBackNothing

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Dennis Potter

WordsYouTroubleKnowNeverBeen

If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'

Demetrious Johnson

WalkPeopleFightingWhyUpBeat

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

Christopher Eccleston

GoodThinkWantProtectProducer

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Christopher Lasch

ConservativeCannotRevivalDismissed

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Claire Danes

ChallengeMoneyPeopleThinkMovies

I hope that there's a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself, and he turns on the television, like, 'Oh my God, thank you.'

Brian Tyree Henry

GodHopeReflectionBlackThought

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