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Elmer Davis Quotes

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Slavery Side Found Hall

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

Jodelle Ferland

Play Way Out Come Only Just

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Jennifer Pahlka

Technology Together Government Now

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.

Robert J. Shiller

Failure Money Government Rich Look

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Short Fine Sure Been Writer Stories

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Family School Society Become Steady

Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Steven Spielberg

Live Character Challenge Ride Worry

I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.

Traveled New Desire Places Mexico

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Time Rejection Long Career Long Time

I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.

Michael Weatherly

Work Great Past People Television

It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.

Angry Think Out I Think Trump Very

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

God Believe You Belief Him Whatever

I know a lot of guys say that when they are younger - 'I'm gonna get it, get my money, and get out' - and then end up wrestling until they're 50. But that could end up being me, too. I can tell you I want to get out early and end up eating my own words. All of a sudden, I'm 50, and I'm still walking out there.

Money Words Me Eating End Walking

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