Dean Rusk Quotes

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

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• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
  • Believe
  • Business
  • History

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Country
  • Past
  • Education

• I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sad

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • You
  • Easy
  • Bored

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Home

• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• I'm very active, wild woman.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Woman
  • Active
  • WIld

• I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

  

  Barack Obama
  • I Can
  • Forward
  • Pen

• Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Time
  • Running
  • Easy

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Heart
  • American

• There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• You always learn something from mistakes.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Live

• The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • People
  • Problem
  • Africa

• The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • World
  • God

• I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Hope
  • Song

• The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

  

  Dean Rusk
  • People
  • Time
  • World