Dederer Center Quotes & Sayings

I normally don't eat junk food. — Martin Yan

Five against one were unfair odds, even if the one was an angel disguised as a soldier. — Kerry Alan Denney

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender. — Douglas MacArthur

Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive."10 This is a curious notion of productivity - at once overtly political and yet presented innocently enough, as if there were only one possible meaning of "productivity." This perspective on life incorporates the Protestant work ethic (that "productivity" is what makes an animal "effective") and echoes the Old Testament notion that life must be endured, not enjoyed. These assumptions are embedded throughout the literature of evolutionary psychology. Ethologist/primatologist Frans de Waal, one of the more open-minded philosophers of human nature, calls this Calvinist sociobiology. — Christopher Ryan

Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez
who was with him at the time
'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!' — Eric Burdon

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is. — Robin Hobb

The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't. — James Richardson

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal. — Barton Gellman

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice. — Clint Eastwood

What god will catch me
when I'm down, when I've taken
sufficient drink to reveal
myself, when my words are little
more than a blurring
of consonant and vowel? — Dilruba Ahmed