Dean Acheson Quotes
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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 -
I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. James Clark -
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 -
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 -
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino -
We can climb mountains with self-love.
Samira Wiley
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. Wilson -
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 -
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg -
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 -
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 -
Are the new viewers gone yet?
Ze Frank
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Sculpture, to me, is primitive, religious, passionate, and magical.
Barbara Hepworth -
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 -
I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.
Johnny Mathis -
Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.
Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin -
Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.
Franklin Cover -
If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'
Joe Bob Briggs
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Walt Disney -
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye -
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt -
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley -
Sometimes the best solution is simplification.
Bobby Bragan -
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson