Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Broadway is really my life.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
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Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
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Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
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If we want to rediscover the radical message of Jesus and experience a reorientation of our lives, we must become willing to let go of whatever else might be getting in the way—even if that’s a religious tradition named after Jesus—and return to the timeless invitation to simply become a follower of him.
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
