A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly...
JIM LEHRER I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy...
JIM LEHRER There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the a...
JIM LEHRER There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
JIM LEHRER People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are...
JIM LEHRER I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in t...
JIM LEHRER If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.
JIM LEHRER If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they d...
JIM LEHRER You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
JIM LEHRER If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how p...
JIM LEHRER I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together...
JIM LEHRER I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
JIM LEHRER I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen...
JIM LEHRER [But he was tripped up by a question posed by Lehrer on how he would handle the difficulties and unc...
JIM LEHRER Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
TOM LEHRER Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
TOM LEHRER You grew up in Germany during a terrible time. We not only see in you the head of the Catholic Churc...
ABRAHAM LEHRER The Vatican should now open its archives.
ABRAHAM LEHRER We will not mention this story to the pope today.
ABRAHAM LEHRER It is easier for Pope Benedict, who grew up in the war generation with a special knowledge of German...
ABRAHAM LEHRER It is for us and for all Jews around the world a truly great event. We are very excited and full of ...
ABRAHAM LEHRER I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!
TOM LEHRER I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
TOM LEHRER Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!
TOM LEHRER I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
TOM LEHRER Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
TOM LEHRER Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
TOM LEHRER Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
TOM LEHRER I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
TOM LEHRER On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about ...
TOM LEHRER The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit dis...
TOM LEHRER It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
TOM LEHRER Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
TOM LEHRER If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
TOM LEHRER All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in th...
TOM LEHRER I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a f...
TOM LEHRER I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I ...
TOM LEHRER I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki...
TOM LEHRER "Brush your teeth with the best toothpaste,Then rinse your mouth with industrial waste".
TOM LEHRER Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting ...
JONAH LEHRER Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.
TOM LEHRER Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
TOM LEHRER On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all t...
TOM LEHRER On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mar...
TOM LEHRER There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all ...
TOM LEHRER One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965,...
TOM LEHRER The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky...
TOM LEHRER Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
TOM LEHRER Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in...
TOM LEHRER Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
TOM LEHRER "Brush your teeth with the best toothpaste,
Then rinse your mouth with industrial waste".
TOM LEHRER Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jock...
TOM LEHRER Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
TOM LEHRER An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
TOM LEHRER If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to den...
TOM LEHRER Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers
TOM LEHRER I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I...
JONAH LEHRER I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of ...
TOM LEHRER The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all foll...
JONAH LEHRER On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about ...
TOM LEHRER It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
TOM LEHRER In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'
TOM LEHRER I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't tha...
TOM LEHRER The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to...
JONAH LEHRER And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.
JONAH LEHRER I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audienc...
TOM LEHRER Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now ther...
JONAH LEHRER The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrim...
TOM LEHRER I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-ev...
JONAH LEHRER Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to ...
JONAH LEHRER Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved d...
JONAH LEHRER If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
TOM LEHRER Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.
TOM LEHRER The study findings suggest that depression or elevated depressive symptoms during adolescence may, a...
JOCELYN LEHRER You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.
TOM LEHRER The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less ta...
JONAH LEHRER It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, the...
JONAH LEHRER People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
JONAH LEHRER The findings of this study suggest that elevated depressive symptom levels during adolescence may se...
JOCELYN LEHRER While it's understood that partner violence often leads to depression in women, few studies have loo...
JOCELYN LEHRER When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
JIM ROHN Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
JIM MORRISON I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be...
JIM DAVIS I stop short of being a workaholic.
JIM DAVIS When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
JIM DAVIS I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
JIM DAVIS I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
JIM DAVIS I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea...
JIM DAVIS Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
JIM DAVIS I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
JIM DAVIS I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi...
JIM DAVIS Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting...
JIM DAVIS You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
JIM DAVIS Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
JIM DAVIS There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari...
JIM DAVIS Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum...
JIM DAVIS You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran...
JIM DAVIS Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS Cats rule the world.
JIM DAVIS As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma...
JIM RAMSTAD I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
JIM ROHN Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...
JIM CARREY Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se...
JIM CARREY I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv...
JIM CARREY There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like...
JIM CARREY I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
JIM CARREY Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel...
JIM CARREY Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
JIM CARREY People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera...
JIM CARREY Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain...
JIM CARREY I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred...
JIM CARREY I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w...
JIM CARREY If you've got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREY My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ...
JIM CARREY It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef...
JIM CARREY Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl...
JIM HENSON Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in t...
JIM HENSON Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ...
JIM HENSON There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ...
JIM HENSON I think my own strengths are in television production.
JIM HENSON It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor...
JIM HENSON NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t...
JIM HENSON Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag...
JIM HENSON I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
JIM HENSON Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o...
JIM HENSON When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t...
JIM HENSON At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s...
JIM HENSON It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop...
JIM HENSON I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ...
JIM HENSON At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...
JIM HENSON When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them...
JIM HENSON I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to...
JIM HENSON My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
JIM HENSON When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
JIM HENSON Either you run the day or the day runs you.
JIM ROHN The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
JIM ROHN Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
JIM ROHN There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr...
JIM GARRISON My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi...
JIM GARRISON It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
JIM GARRISON Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait...
JIM GARRISON It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig...
JIM GARRISON It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass...
JIM GARRISON I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
JIM GARRISON I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
JIM CARREY A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, &#...
JIM CARREY Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their...
JIM MORRISON There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
JIM ROHN I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami...
JIM DRAIN Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p...
JIM RAMSTAD I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ...
JIM HIMES If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ...
JIM ROHN Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t...
JIM CRACE I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it...
JIM MORRISON Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip...
JIM GERLACH You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
JIM HARRISON The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o...
JIM WEBB Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
JIM COOPER Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At le...
JIM ROHN I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d...
JIM BROWN I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ...
JIM BROWN Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
JIM LOEHR Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror ar...
JIM FERGUS I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o...
JIM STURGESS With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on ...
JIM DOYLE I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and r...
JIM BROADBENT During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.
JIM PATTISON The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d...
JIM LEE The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we...
JIM COSTA Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
JIM ROGERS Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual med...
JIM GERLACH