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

• I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Book

• 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

• I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.

  

  Matteo Manassero
  • School
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • May
  • Remember

• I am fascinated by quantum physics.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Physics
  • Fascinated
  • Quantum

• As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Daughter
  • Geometry
  • Astronomy

• I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

  

  Corin Nemec
  • Done
  • Book
  • Poetry

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

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson