Dean Acheson Quotes
147, on the situation in Greece: 'imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis.'
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.
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I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.
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147, on the situation in Greece: 'imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis.'
