Dean Rusk Quotes

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Dean Rusk

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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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Child
  • Baby

• There are programs that don't work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Programs

• 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.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Privacy
  • Essential

• I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Kid

• 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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Travel
  • Once
  • Roads

• 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.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Air
  • Victory

• 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.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Training

• Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Sky
  • Hat

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Past
  • Education
  • Learning

• Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • People
  • World
  • American

• She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Grief
  • Prove

• One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Angel
  • Lie

• Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Country
  • Responsibility
  • Values

• I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Deep
  • Language

• Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

  

  Dean Rusk