Helen Thomas Quotes

The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

Helen Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1920 - July 20, 2013

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

John Donne

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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

John Polanyi

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It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Robert Winston

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A public is a necessary fiction.

Rowan Williams

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The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

Monica Crowley

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If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

Jason Isbell

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Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Christopher Columbus

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Clifton Fadiman

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I'm not better than anyone else.

Clive Owen

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We can't continue to tax, borrow, and spend at the rates that we are, and it's just got to be stopped.

Chuck Fleischmann

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As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.

Anupam Kher

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It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Sylvia Fraser

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