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On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done. John McCain
Plato quote: "Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and..."
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. Plato
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. Laurence Housman
John Steinbeck quote: "Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified..."
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. John Steinbeck
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things. Christopher Darden
I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life. Jodi Picoult
I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all. Joaquin Phoenix
Bob Woodward quote: "I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews."
I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews. Bob Woodward
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating. Jennifer Weiner
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. Caleb Cushing
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent. Tim Holden
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. James Wolcott
Dustin Hoffman quote: "A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. Dustin Hoffman
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever..."
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. Jeanette Winterson
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. Christopher Hitchens

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