Dean Acheson Quotes
'If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.'
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
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I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy.
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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'If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.'
