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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Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.
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That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
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Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
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Make no mistake: I do not valorize our military out of some unfamiliar instinct. I grew up in a military family, and have my own record of service, and have stayed closely engaged with our armed forces throughout my public career. In the American system, the military has value only inasmuch as it protects and defends the liberties of the people.
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I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
