Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to understand the industry, the more I fell in love with it.
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Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.
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Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
