Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
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I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.
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I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora's salespeople.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.
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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
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For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
