Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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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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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That brings a balance to life.
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Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
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I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it's about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
