Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
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My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
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My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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My generation were all careerists.
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'And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.'
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
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There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.
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I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it.
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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
