Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Television

• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Trust
  • Artist
  • Save

• '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.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Stop
  • Decision
  • Daily

• Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Reality
  • Small
  • Reality TV

• George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Always
  • Said
  • Rip

• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • Year
  • Looking Back

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Unseen

• Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Coach

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Party
  • Confused
  • Elephant

• 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?

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Different
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Period

• I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Never
  • Politician
  • Intended

• 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.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Light
  • Single
  • Singing

• There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.

  

  Ian Axel
  • People
  • Look
  • Built

• The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Courage

• People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • People
  • Music
  • Angry

• As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Comedy
  • Speak
  • Should

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Lessons

• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson