Benjamin Wittes Quotes

Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

Benjamin Wittes

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IntelligencePeoplePolicyDisagree

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

Jil Sander

RespectMeIdeasFashionDesign

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.

Matt Groening

FamilyFatherAdventureBrother

Gene therapy technology is much like computing technology. We had to build the super computer which cost $8 million in 1960. Now everyone has technologies that work predictably and at a cost the average person can afford.

Liz Parrish

WorkTechnologyPersonNowBuild

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Don Miguel Ruiz

TruthKnowledgeFogBelieveIgnore

It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

Douglas Conant

WorkQualityPeopleExpectationsWay

When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to be him.

Chubby Checker

ManGoBecomeHimStageChubby

Write as if you were dying.

Annie Dillard

YouWriteDyingWere

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

William T. Vollmann

KnowledgeIgnoranceMeMoreWrite

Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.

Peyton Manning

MeBetterCareerBecomeFoxCraft

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

Shannon Hoon

FatherMyselfCaringStartNeed

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Richard P. Feynman

LawsQuantumExplanationKnown

I'm not exactly an angry young person.

Renee Fleming

AngryPersonYoungExactly

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