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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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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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
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In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.
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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
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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.
