Dean Acheson Quotes
In response, Acheson wrote to 'tell a tale of large conceptions, great achievements...Its hero is the American people.'
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.
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I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
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In response, Acheson wrote to 'tell a tale of large conceptions, great achievements...Its hero is the American people.'
