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

• People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Male say they're looking for a girl just like the girl who married dear old dad, but what they really want, and usually get, is an empty-headed little chick who's very young and very physical -and very submissive.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Girl
  • Dad

• Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water barons argue, is to put the process in the hands of the market. If water is scarce, then raise the price - let the law of supply and demand take over!

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • People
  • Law
  • Water

• I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur

• The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.

  

  John Jacob Astor
  • Time
  • Plans
  • China

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

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson