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  • Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

  • I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

  • I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.

    "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.
  • Culture Clash is a national treasure.

  • Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

    Boys   Brain   Tasks  
    A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.

  • Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

  • The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

  • I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

    Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.
  • Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

    Thinking   Voice   Needs  
  • The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

    God   Jobs   Father  
    Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.
  • Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  • Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

  • In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.

  • So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

    Football   Player   Men  
  • George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

    Unique   Style   Treasure  
  • The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.

  • Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

    John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books
  • Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

  • The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

    America   Long   Politics  
    Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.
  • The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

  • The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

    Men   Treasure   Cia  
  • Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

    Hate   People   Golden  
    "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.
  • Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

    Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.14, The Miegunyah Press
  • But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.
  • [The media] are using a national treasure - that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

    Winter Soldier Testimony, 2008.
  • Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

    Jobs   Fire   Visionaries  
  • I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not doing something that's safe and anodyne and trying to be populist and a national treasure, then you've got to assume that as many people hate what you do - and you - as like what you do and like you.

    Hate   People   Trying  
    "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!

    Age   Energy   Example  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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