Bruce Jackson Quotes

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Bruce Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WarMediaReadyKnowAcceptEvents

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

Andie MacDowell

ChildrenRestAccomplishmentEnough

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

John Kluge

LifeExcellenceMy LifePhilosophy

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.

John Hull

FatProblemImportantProbability

Nothing is sacred, right?

Mia Kirshner

NothingRightSacred

All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.

Sue Monk Kidd

LifeLiveLovedHouseWallWrite

I'm not a guy that's going to shoot 10 3s a game - I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.

Jaylen Brown

FlyGameShootTakeGuyGoing

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Chris Hughes

ThinkPersonKnowWantKindThrough

We are not safe and secure when the government uses us as pawns to perpetrate violence against others. Our safety and security will come when we organize, love, and resist together.

Chelsea Manning

LoveTogetherGovernmentSafetyWill

My son is my routine and priority, period!

Cory Hardrict

SonRoutinePriorityPeriod

I was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by a man named Rafael! Something stung my elbow, and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.

Colin Firth

LoveManLakeBeastTennisHospital

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Bruce Schneier

TravelFlySurviveWorryTerrorism

I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives.

Sylvia Plath

MyselfSilenceRedGreenOrangeSee

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