Dean Acheson Quotes
'The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.'Dean Acheson
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
Dan Jenkins -
One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney -
There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
Caitlin Moran -
I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
Damian McGinty -
I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
Wayne Dyer -
I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
Damon Lindelof -
The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
Randi Weingarten -
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson -
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
Caleb Deschanel
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde -
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
Xun Kuang -
I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
Garry Shandling -
I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
Vera Farmiga -
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
Aaron Levie -
Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
Ursula Burns
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
Dallas Roberts -
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
Gabriel Lippmann -
Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
Barack Obama -
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
George Brett -
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
H. L. Mencken -
'The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.'
Dean Acheson