Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.
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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
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I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.
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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
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There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
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If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not out of a crystal stem.
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Someone asks me what's my practice? I don't want the fear of being humiliated to have authority over me. I don't want it to come near me. I don't want it to have a voice in my decisions. I don't want it to be anywhere near me. What's my practice? That one. I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
