Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

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• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

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• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

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• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

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• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

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• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  

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• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

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• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

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• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
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• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  

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• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

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• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

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• Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.

  

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• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

  

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• Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.

  

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• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  

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• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
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• While it's true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you let Jesus in your kitchen, he just keeps on making peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and he never leaves.

  

  Cathleen Falsani
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• I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

  

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  • Time
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• I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.

  

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• You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Kitchen