Benjamin Wittes Quotes

In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.

Benjamin Wittes

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To me faith means not worrying.

John Dewey

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I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Andreja Pejic

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I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

Andie MacDowell

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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Robert Graves

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I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

Steven Pinker

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I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

Robert Vaughn

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The women I see are very brave women, very strong women, women that are facing a lot of challenges and yet are up to the challenges and are making a very big effort. So I don't see why one of them cannot become a president - one day.

Rula Ghani

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When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

Mike Johanns

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I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Michelle Gagnon

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I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Lisa O'Hare

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If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

Johnny Depp

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I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

Christopher Walken

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