- Nov 07, 2020
He Quotes
Third-person praise, from the field to the set.
This page collects quotes that describe someone else directly — a scouting comment on a hitter's known weakness, and warm praise for a footballer's skill and standing among peers. For identity-focused sayings, see Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a number of films with Amitabh. He was a wonderful costar - totally different from others.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Nov 07, 2020
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
- Disturbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020