Kingman Brewster Quotes

#1. I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

Bjork

#2. It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#3. If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

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#4. Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

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#5. Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

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#6. ...as a woman who was raised with the idea that the world was at my fingertips, that anything I wanted could be mine for the taking, on the eve of my thirtieth birthday I am ready to stand up and say that trying to have it all is not all it's cracked up to be.

Anna Mitchael

#7. Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#8. The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

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#9. I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have.

Julian Ovenden

#10. There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

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#11. It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

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#12. What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

John Macmurray

#13. There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

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#14. I guess I could have a couple of secrets.

Alex Mack

#15. The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

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#16. You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

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#17. With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

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#18. It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

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#19. While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

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#20. We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

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#21. The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

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#22. The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

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#23. If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

Bayard Rustin

#24. If we pay great attention to the meaning of each moment of our unique life, the meaning of life in general will attend to itself.

Dee Hock

#25. Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#26. There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'

Nathan Fillion

#27. A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

Willem Dafoe

#28. Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

Brandon Bays

#29. Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

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#30. A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.

Heber J. Grant

#31. One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself.

Max Beerbohm