Dean Acheson Quotes
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
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The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
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We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
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With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.
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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
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I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.
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'Do you know,' said Maclaren, 'there is one sin which is punished with unfailing certainty, and must therefore be the deadliest sin in all time. Stupidity.'
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There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.
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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
