Gwen Ifill Quotes

I've spent so many years talking about lame ducks in the White House and Congress, and it's never occurred to me to find out what the heck it means. It turns out it's an old English hunting term - something about firing at a duck without quite killing it. In any case, the hobbled duck limps on, at a distinct disadvantage.

Gwen Ifill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 29, 1955 - November 14, 2016

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I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.

Jimi Westbrook

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In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

John E. Walker

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To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

Tom Hollander

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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Tom Stoppard

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Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Rosamund Pike

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I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Rudy Rucker

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We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Michael K. Powell

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I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Judy Davis

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My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.

Jon Jones

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A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

Diplo

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