Dexter Filkins Quotes

It's so jarring to go from Baghdad to Cambridge, to go from a place where people are fighting and striving and dying to a place where the biggest concern is what kind of cheese to put in your sandwich.

Dexter Filkins

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PeopleFightingPlaceStrivingKind

There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.

Jeremy Corbyn

TimeProcessPartyWillCarryGoing

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Robert Rauschenberg

FeetThinkYouBedSayThirty

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

Angus Deaton

GoodPeoplePotentialAmericaIndia

My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.

Jeff Fortenberry

ImportantDegreeTheologyPart

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

John Wycliffe

GoodGodFaithTrustFreeThrough

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

GreatMindFortuneBecomes

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Jason Segel

FunnyYouFindLineBetweenReached

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Bonnie Raitt

AgeMeBetterHappenPeersGet

I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.

Ashton Sanders

LoveDoingActingRareSomething

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Arthur Smith

TravelBookBetterWalkingMy Own

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

William J. Clinton

DayWifePlanNewFirstOffice

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

William Mapother

LoveMusicMorningListenOpera

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