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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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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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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Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.
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Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
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We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered.
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The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
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We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
