Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Quotes to Explore
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
