Dean Acheson Quotes

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

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• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Country
  • Corruption
  • Morals

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Youth

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Strong
  • Failure
  • Motivational

• I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Experience
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• We can climb mountains with self-love.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mountains
  • Climb
  • Self-Love

• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Organization
  • Ants

• I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Alone

• It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Day

• In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • World
  • Culture
  • Artistry

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • God
  • Opinion

• All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Know
  • Desire

• Are the new viewers gone yet?

  

  Ze Frank

• Sculpture, to me, is primitive, religious, passionate, and magical.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Religious

• There is no more beautiful scenery or climate for summer travel than Switzerland presents. The people are industrious and honest, simple and frugal in their habits, and would be very poor with all this, if it were not from the travel through their country. I wish their surplus population would emigrate to the United States.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Up
  • Men
  • Dark

• It's a weight problem isn't it; you can't wait for lunch.

  

  Al Murray
  • Weight
  • Wait
  • Lunch

• What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Moments

• Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Die

• The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Life
  • Experience

• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

  

  Dean Acheson