Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

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• It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.

  

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• I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

  

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• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

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• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

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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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• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

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• Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

  

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• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

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• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

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• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

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• I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.

  

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• 99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.

  

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• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

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• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
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• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

  

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• A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

  

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• I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

  

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• If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.

  

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• May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
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• By forcing us to look closely at our requests, prayer purifies us.

  

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• The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Work
  • Small
  • Peace