Dean Acheson Quotes
'My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature...The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.'
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
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Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.
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… after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? … What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?
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I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.
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'My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature...The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.'
