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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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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'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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Hydrogen peroxide-based bombs were used in the London bombings in 2005; in al Qaeda's foiled plot to attack subways in New York City in 2009 and also in the ISIS-directed Paris attacks in 2015 and the ISIS-directed attacks in Brussels a year later.
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I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.
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Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
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I told my wife, when I go up to the garage and I wash my Cobra, I feel like I'm cheating on her.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
