Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
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There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.
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Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.
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My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!
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The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Nazis for very specific reasons. They saw in the Jews the ultimate enemy, who was behind all the other enemies they had. And the Jews were in their eyes Satan; coming from a Christian background, although anti-Christian, if somebody was Satan you knew what to do with him. Murder him. Kill him. Annihilate him. Ultimately. Perhaps drive him out first. And then finally when this didn't work kill him. And it wasn't really directed against the Jews of country X but against the concept of the Jew. The Jew. Anywhere. Everywhere. At all times. Forever. And that is unique. That has never happened before but it can happen again. The idea of some powerful force that unless it is totally annihilated there's no chance for your survival. That was the Nazi ideology.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
