Dean Acheson Quotes
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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'Wicked' is so hard-core, physically and mentally, for the whole three hours, that doing that show for two years has pretty much prepared me for anything.
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I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
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Directing is a very, very difficult job.
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
