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'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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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.
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I'm not a vindictive kind of guy.
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I'm a nail biter and have been my whole life.
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In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
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Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
