Esther Dyson Quotes

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

Esther Dyson

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Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jeremy Corbyn

SinglePointSystemActMarketMuch

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.

Stephen Kinzer

PassionWarConflictWorldClassic

I was actually signed at a very young age - I was 12 - and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side.

Tori Kelly

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Normal athletes couldn't do what Premier League football players can do.

Tony Bellew

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Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

Robin Marantz Henig

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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

Michael Winterbottom

HatePeopleMeTellApproachMuch

Christians are commanded to pray in the name of Jesus. It is not a practice reserved just for personal prayers, or prayers rendered in church.

Monica Johnson

PracticeNameChurchPersonalPray

There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.

Lisa Jewell

WomanSoulMissionYouDarkPerson

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Dee Dee Myers

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Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

Noam Chomsky

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France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Rich Lowry

AmericaStrivingWillMatterAlways

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