quotes about Briefing

last updated: November 28, 2023

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
-- Alan Bennett

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The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
-- Marlin Fitzwater

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“My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'”
“I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'”
“Love is not what you say; love is what you do”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2014
“Everyone is interested in whatâ€˜s new. Few people are interested in whatâ€˜s better.”
“No society of nations, no people within a nation, no family can benefit through mutual aid unless good will exceeds ill will; unless the spirit of cooperation surpasses antagonism; unless we all see and act as though the other man's welfare determines our own welfare.”
“God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.”
“Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul,”

Source : "Teena Marie, Known as 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' Dies", www.foxnews.com. December 27, 2010.
“I would think that would be really liberating to play like a real cad or a villain or something like that, and that's something I haven't gotten the chance to do a lot.”
“The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.”