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
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Ada Lovelace
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
Omar Dorsey
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
Ziyi Zhang
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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.
Hari Kondabolu
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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?
H. R. Giger
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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.
Natalie Dormer
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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
Vaclav Klaus
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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.
Dan Hicks
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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.
Ian Axel
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
Q-Tip
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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.
Walter Raleigh
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At that time they said I was crazy because I wanted to make a movie that was 14 or 16 hours. But now people do it. There are three-'Hobbit 1,' 'Hobbit 2,' 'Hobbit 3.' Everything I wanted to do is possible to do today.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.
F. David Mathews
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I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?
Andrea Thompson
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I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.
Joe R. Lansdale
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If it's a huge tentpole movie, for instance with a movie like 'Tintin,' a year and a half, almost two years in advance, we were developing a videogame campaign and massive consumer products campaign.
Kathleen Kennedy
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
