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.

Dean Acheson

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
  • Constitution
  • Union

• 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.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Real
  • Help
  • Know

• 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.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Small
  • Drama
  • Cricket

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Lazy
  • Shoot

• 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.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Good
  • God
  • Together

• I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Los Angeles
  • Bit
  • Nashville

• 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.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • You
  • Friend
  • Gay

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Character

• I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Journey

• It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Long
  • House
  • Light

• When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

  

  Bob Toski
  • Confidence
  • Players
  • Conclusion

• 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.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Question