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Elmer Davis Quotes

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1890 - May 18, 1958

Topics

Home Brave Free Long Will Land

Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.

Together Key Feel Doing Remember

The blockchain is to money what SMTP is to email. It's an open way to move value around. Every existing player in this space - not just Venmo but also Google and Facebook and others - are all closed; they all want to work just within their own walled garden.

Work Money Value Space Garden Want

I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.

New York People City Think New High

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

Missed Out Last Roles Jessica Wilde

I think the Angels could use me the most. The Angels don't have a day-to-day first baseman.

Me Think Angels First Most I Think

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.

Beginning People Think Pressure Know

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Black Political White Three Become

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

Live Today Tree Perspective Day War

I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?

School Eating Speak Why London Up

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

Childhood Thought Possible Resolve

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.

Work Family Farm Early Kind Status

I've accomplished more than I ever dreamed. But I'm hungry for more.

More Hungry Accomplished Than Ever

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