The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.
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Related We want to head off the rumors before they can do any damage. JOE SPRAGGINS Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of ... JOHN PODHORETZ That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive a... HENRY ROLLINS porn is more hazardous than any other chemicals because it can either damage your brain or your marr... MARIA MAYLINE GRANT He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four po... AL FRANKEN This worm is a medium threat in terms of its distribution, but in terms of the damage it can create,... ART GILLILAND They can do a tremendous amount of damage. BOB OLESON It's just ignorance, really, and not recognizing the damage they can do. You can go look at almost a... BOB LOY An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. JEAN COCTEAU I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful ... FRANK DEFORD The option I feel more comfortable with is taking it out, ... It's my ankle. It's the way I make a l... AHMED PLUMMER Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike. JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very ... THEODORE C. SORENSEN The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly l... LI BINGBING Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation. SUNDAY ADELAJA Recent hurricane damage in the U.S. has impacted natural gas more than any other energy market. BARCLAYS CAPITAL We can do more good by being good, than in any other way ROWLAND HILL Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J. K. ROWLING Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J.K. ROWLING Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republic... MARTIN ANDERSON I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage. CALVIN JOHNSON I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hear... PAULA HAWKINS A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart. HAROLD W. DODDS Think not of what you can do, but of what you cannot! JALAL ERRAZI A teen-ager can only do so much damage with his fists. CHARLES SCHUMER Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any ... ELI YISHAI We want to see [these dogs] caught before they do any more damage. I don't know how dangerous these ... SIM DAVIDSON Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material... MARK TWAIN I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great de... JANE AUSTEN There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage. JAY SPEER Kids are more likely to do permanent damage. This is something he would do. GARY MCDONALD We know the cost of rebuilding New Orleans is going to be far more than that of Mississippi, but ...... HARRY REID What we've tried to do is minimize the damage (from) a system which at its core is designed to penal... BILL POLIAN You know the quickest way to get comedians to hate you? Do Letterman at age 24. MIKE BIRBIGLIA He promises to do as much damage and harm to Israel as he can, JOSEPH LAPID We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral i... DAN ALLEN Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack... BRUCE SCHNEIER I would think it is. But as you know, a small group of people can do a lot of damage. CHARLESTINE FAIRLEY Higher levels of technology allow fewer people to do more damage. NICK SAGAN That is flat-out false, and I'm ashamed that you would compare me to Newt Gingrich. Nobody up here d... HOWARD DEAN What Greenspan is proposing is far too little, far too late, and what he needs to do is not prod the... LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a dist... PETE DU PONT I believe a Democratic president can do more for this country than a Republican president can, BILL BRADLEY Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victo... VICTOR DAVIS HANSON We're a pretty good team. We proved we can do some damage as a duo. LAWRENCE JACKSON We would view with the greatest possible concern any such event, ... It would do Indonesia immense, ... RICHARD HOLBROOKE I can think of no place in Washington in which more damage had taken place than there. DAVID MAJOR The whole strategy of Ford and Firestone is to limit the recall and do as much damage control as the... CLARENCE DITLOW A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We've got great guys who can move the puck and get up in the play. Offensively do some damage, that'... BRENT SOPEL As with every other age and the technologies that are developed, there are vulnerabilities you have ... DANIEL KUEHL Sometimes, by pretending neutrality, in a conflict between evil and truth, one can inflict more dama... DR HITESH C SHETH Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of securi... ERALDO BANOVAC I'd need a brain for there to be any damage! CHRIS BRADFORD A clear passion, a resolute determination, a can-do spirit; these are the rods for creating a great ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the da... GARY ADAMS The first half of the season was tough, but we know we have a good enough team that we can do a lot ... JOE GROSSMAN More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better.... RIHANNA Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile abou... MAURICE SENDAK And, most importantly, knowing what we know now knowing the damage we did would we do the same thing... ALLAN HEINBERG And, most importantly, knowing what we know now knowing the damage we did would we do the same... ALLAN HEINBERG There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. All we can do now is try to prevent sec... CHARLES COX All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by th... CHARLES COX All of the damage from these diseases is permanent, so if you can start treatment early, in a few we... FRANTISEK TURECEK The rights that we have under the Constitution covers anything we want to do, as long as its not har... BARRY GOLDWATER Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. ADAM HOCHSCHILD Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer. CALVIN KLEIN Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abu... ASA DON BROWN Katherine Harris is a tremendously intense politician. She means well, but like any other politician... BILL PFEIFFER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ... ELEANOR ACER With scores like that, they can do some damage at district. They could get second. DOUG WARREN She is our Newt Gingrich. She is our Tom DeLay. JARVIS STEWART One thing our trainers tell us is, you must report any type of damage to the aircraft. For these peo... BOBBY PACE Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicia... ZADIE SMITH Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - t... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER There wasn't any damage to the bridge that I'm aware off. JEFF KNIGHT I'd be very surprised if we had any damage as a result of debris shedding. ... We will be flying muc... BILL READDY Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate. MONICA CROWLEY I think we have a great chance to do some damage. I feel great, and we're ready to go. DANNY NOLL In the long run it is no. No. It will definitely do more damage than that 10 percent to 20 percent i... JAMES LUCAS I saw everything happening, and I said, 'Wow, I can't believed we're going to go out like this, ... ... CARL EDWARDS Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. JOHN PODHORETZ I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five pape... G. H. HARDY More experienced restoration people are comparing this to hurricane damage. It's much more serious d... FRANK POIROT I think this deal is going to be killed. The question is how much damage is this going to do to us b... THOMAS KEAN Learn, relearn and outlearn. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two. ARTHUR MELLEN WELLINGTON But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to you... JULIE POWELL We know that Jake can pitch with a broken rib. He pitched with a broken rib (Tuesday). So would it b... TODD HUTCHESON Any story or macroeconomic factor that could damage those aggressive revenue forecasts is going to h... CHARLIE CRANE We don't see ourselves as four All-Stars. We see ourselves as one unit. It's like five fingers on a ... RASHEED WALLACE It's frustrating when you think about it because you can go out there and hit a player from behind a... ELGIN REID We don't have any severe damage at this point. GWEN DAVIS The longer you've been exposed to pro-inflammatory pressures, the more damage can accumulate. ANDREW WEIL The larger issue is everything we do now shifts that traffic and that damage somewhere else. So we'r... JENNY NEELEY After the Republicans took control of Congress in '94 and Newt Gingrich and company came to town, th... LARRY MAKINSON Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON You know that a spanking is not going to do damage. You may not agree with spanking, particularly in... CAROL BENEVY You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good. PAUL MELLON
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MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of. MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ... MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor... MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River... MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it... MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat... MICHAEL SHOWALTER