Dean Acheson Quotes
'The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...'
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
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Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.
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Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
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Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.
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'The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...'
