Bruce Jackson Quotes

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

Bruce Jackson

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DailyTimePeopleSmallGivingTell

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

John Ensign

ExperienceLovedWonderfulBeing

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

GirlTimeStreetFirst TimeFirst

Athletics is a luxury.

Roger Bannister

LuxuryAthletics

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

Rokia Traore

MusicTrustSelf-ConfidenceBuild

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

Julia Barr

YouSeeSomethingGetBehind

We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.

Joseph Crowley

PersonGroupSameSingleSame Thing

This is America, and everybody should have a right to say what they want to say. But I think there's a time and a place for it.

Johnny Van Zant

TimeThinkAmericaPlaceSayWant

I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so non-intrusive. But I am so sick of hair on my face and on my head.

Ato Essandoh

I AmHairWorldSickBeardFace

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

Alice Englert

PerformanceYouSecretsKnowNever

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Peter Lewis Allen

KnowledgeMedicalNewSayOldSense

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

Sebastian Bach

EasyEveryoneDaysOwnYourGuess

I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.

Mark McKinnon

TimeThinkLongLong TimeAlong

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