Benjamin Wittes Quotes

If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.

Benjamin Wittes

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GreatBelieveYouAuthorityVirtue

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

PositiveWorkNegativeYouWayOut

Chicago is an extremely rough place to grow up in. Especially if you're the only brother on the block that's into bumpin' Alanis Morrisette... So 'You Oughta Know,' I moved to Oregon.

Ron Funches

BrotherGrowYouPlaceKnowChicago

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

Mary Gauthier

GoodWomanCareLooksSheLine

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

Michelle Obama

LifeSimpleMeMomDinnerMoving

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

Donal Logue

DoneMoreNeverGoneShowBeen

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

Donald Glover

SchoolMeHigh SchoolTryingHigh

I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.

Colin Trevorrow

RelationshipPeopleInternetYou

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

Cliff Chiang

GreatPastBetterIgnoreLookSince

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Boris Pasternak

TruthPowerMenIgnoreMythAnxious

My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.

Arthur Potts Dawson

TimeFoodHeroDeathManVillain

To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in conflict with your own people - that is truly terrible.

Svetlana Alexievich

PeopleConflictOwnUsedTerrible

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

Peter Capaldi

FallRiseMatterIndustryGoing

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