Dean Acheson Quotes

President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.

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• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Security
  • Europe

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• I do not support a livable wage.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Wage
  • Livable

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Responsibility
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Nothing

• I don't really know much about cars.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Know
  • Really
  • About

• I approach everyday personal beauty very naturally; I try to make it look like I'm not wearing makeup.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beauty
  • Look
  • Everyday

• The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Thing
  • Leads
  • Opposed

• I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Dancing
  • Percent
  • OK

• I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Live
  • Fun

• I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Job
  • Career

• May the day when you need courage never come.Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Courage

• Donna, donna, dark, Stooping in indigo gown And cloudy constellations, Conceal yourself or disclose Fewest things to the lover - A hand that bears a thick-leaved fruit, A pungent bloom against your shade.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Hand
  • Dark

• Is it he or is it I that experience this?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Experience

• Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• Over the years, I've had a few roles where I've had to take my shirt off. I've kind of been the 'shirt-off' guy.

  

  Dean Geyer
  • Guy

• I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Help

• When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Song

• The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Good
  • Community

• President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.

  

  Dean Acheson