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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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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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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Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
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The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.
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I don't believe in fate.
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I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
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With beauty, I just try to get as much sleep as possible. I might have a nice hot bath and moisturise with coconut oil.
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'The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...'
