Dean Acheson Quotes
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
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The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.
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I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
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If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good, and sometimes you're like, 'That one was just sorta there.'
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Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
