Dean Acheson Quotes
Acheson 'never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service.'
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
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Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
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Acheson 'never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service.'
