"In Washington, as we learned from the White……" — Edwin Newman
"In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others."
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Edwin Newman
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13 Quotes by Edwin Newman
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Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.
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To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers,…
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
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In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.
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Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to…
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Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an…
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have…
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph…
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William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it…
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Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of…
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Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent…
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There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate.…
— Lewis Black
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are…
— F. H. Bradley
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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other…
— Buzz Aldrin
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Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a…
— Oleg Cassini
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles…
— Sun Tzu
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money…
— Maimonides
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which…
— Agnes Repplier
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
— Colin Powell
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit…
— Sean Penn
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