Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 17, 1919 - November 8, 1988

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Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

Joe Henderson

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There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

Jessica Szohr

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The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

John Naisbitt

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The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.

Robert Indiana

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I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

Michael J. Fox

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Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Steven Pinker

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Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

Sloane Crosley

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My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Tommy Lasorda

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It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

Ron Silver

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Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

Mika Brzezinski

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Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Monica Crowley

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The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

Jarvis Cocker

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