Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Quotes to Explore
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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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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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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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Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.
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I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.
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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
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Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
