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 all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.
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My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
