Dean Acheson Quotes
Plainly plenty of work was waiting to be done. The question was: would the State Department do it? I proposed to have a shot at finding out.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.
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I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.
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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
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After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.
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Plainly plenty of work was waiting to be done. The question was: would the State Department do it? I proposed to have a shot at finding out.
