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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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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Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel.. .One must have only one master – nature; she is the one always be consulted.
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All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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He was indeed an altered Toad!
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In quiet places, reason abounds.
