Dean Rusk Quotes
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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There are programs that don't work.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
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I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.
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By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.
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Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!
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You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.
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I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
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From that moment the pendulum went into reverse
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I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio.
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The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive backwash of receding manuscript culture. (p. 170)
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My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'
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The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.
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Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
