Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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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.
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I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.
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It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.
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If these thoughts can be of any aid in your search of a remedy for the great evil under which the nation labors, you are very welcome to them. You will allow me however to add that it will be most agreeable to me, not to be publickly referred to in any use you may make of them.
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Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.
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Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
