Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
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Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13
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I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.
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Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.
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Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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In quiet places, reason abounds.
