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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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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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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If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.
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I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
