Dwight Quotes

• Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

  Rainn Wilson

  Painting, Clown, Sad Clown

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• Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

  Rainn Wilson

  Leadership, Thinking, Born

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• Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Oscar Levant

  Mind, Dwight D Eisenhower, Indecision

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• Three American presidents-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson-have asked the question: What do we get from aiding Pakistan? Five-Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama-have wondered aloud whether Pakistan's leaders can be trusted to keep their word.

  Husain Haqqani

  Leader, Dwight D Eisenhower, President

  Husain Haqqani (2013). “Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding”, p.2, PublicAffairs

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• I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Two, President

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.50, New Word City

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• I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That was the script I got. The affliction that the judge is suffering from was completely different.

  Susan Downey

  Judging, Suffering, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

  Arnold Palmer

  Heart, Good Friend, Golf

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.

  Oliver Stone

  Dad, Father, Intelligent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.

  Arnold Palmer

  Dwight Eisenhower, Reeds, Masters

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Prayer, Play, Knees

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Player, Europe, Nba

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jobs, Military, War

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  President, Dwight Eisenhower, Good Things

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Dwight Eisenhower, Too Late

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

  Jeff Sessions

  Teacher, Father, Parent

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Dwight Eisenhower has been underestimated, which may relate to his advanced age in office, his somewhat uneven communications skills, and his failure to present a forward-looking vision on the rising issue of civil rights.

  James M Strock

  Communication, Office, Vision

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• [Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

  Mark Shields

  World, Dwight Eisenhower, Citizens

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• We had the clip of [Donald] Trump saying: I'm not president of the globe. I'm president of the United States.[Ronald] Reagan would have never said that. [Dwight] Eisenhower would have never said that, because he would have said, yes, I'm president of the United States, but it's in our interests to be securing a world order.

  Mark Shields

  Order, President, Dwight Eisenhower

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.

  David Brooks

  Presidential, Arguing, Barack

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, Two, Office

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Loss

  Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

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• (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

  Ira Berkow

  Baseball, Winning, Awards

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• It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

  Robert Dold

  Oil, Dwight D Eisenhower, Balance

  "Don't sacrifice Arctic refuge" by Robert Dold, www.politico.com. February 16, 2012.

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• The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Powerful, Names

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