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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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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'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.
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I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.
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Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
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If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
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It's a blindness thing, faith.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
