Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Quotes to Explore
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I love recording music.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.
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Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
