Elmer Davis Quotes

It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.

Elmer Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

Jenni Rivera

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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.

Robert Sheehan

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Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Robert Mueller

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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

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It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

Mary Frann

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When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

Russ

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I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way.

Missy Franklin

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America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

Dick Gephardt

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Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the camera. When I'm shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I'm going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve.

Dee Rees

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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Christopher Lasch

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