Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
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I've become very aware of body issues and body confidence.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
