"There is a terrific disadvantage in not having……" — John F. Kennedy
"There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press."
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John F. Kennedy
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622 Quotes by John F. Kennedy
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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
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We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing…
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated,…
— Conrad Black
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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go…
— Kristen Stewart
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The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a…
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Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time,
— Stella McCartney
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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive,…
— Simon Mawer
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Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity…
— Isocrates
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
— Marshall McLuhan
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At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40…
— Isaac Asimov
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In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe.…
— Shalom Harlow
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