John Dickerson Quotes

An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their constituents.

John Dickerson

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We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

Jil Sander

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My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Jennifer Lopez

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Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

Stedman Graham

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I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.

Trent Lott

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One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.

Mohnish Pabrai

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I have a big brother who would make dolls' houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.

Miranda July

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I've led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of 'I need food on the table and I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage.'

Jason Momoa

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Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.

Joseph Barbera

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Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

Joseph Brant

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I had difficulty working for other people.

Don Cornelius

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I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a row and went out afterwards, we'd lose our voices. We know our limits.

Winston Marshall

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I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.

Pierce Brosnan

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