Bret Stephens Quotes

Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.

Bret Stephens

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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

Michael Caine

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Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

Sondre Lerche

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Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

Sigmund Freud

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When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.

Tom Perez

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Pretty much all my mother's side is Kiwi, and we have a strong Maori heritage.

Robert Whittaker

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I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

Ruby Wax

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I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

Drake

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I think what happens is that some writers, who are so great in television or whatever, once they become successful, they get out of the loop of real life. It's real hard to draw on something to write.

Bonnie Hunt

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Once you learn how to free up in front of the camera, it's like nothing else.

William Jackson Harper

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The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Peggy Noonan

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I freaking hate liars.

Tim Kennedy

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At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

Norman Lamm

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