Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter Lippmann -
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
Frances O'Grady -
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
Maajid Nawaz -
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
Fede Alvarez -
Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
Tamsin Greig -
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
Ilan Stavans
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
Ziyi Zhang -
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
Patrick Wilson -
I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
Kate Winslet -
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Events are not a matter of chance.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
Laura Dern -
We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
Camilo Villegas -
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
Iris Apfel -
So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.
Yani Tseng -
I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
Randy Harrison -
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor
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Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.
C. S. Lewis -
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
Haley Bennett -
The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.
Anthony Trollope -
I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.
Jessica McNamee -
The truth, ... is that Microsoft has been a monopolist found by a federal judge to have undercut innovation and hence competition and consumer welfare.
Eliot Spitzer -
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Adlai E. Stevenson