Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Quotes to Explore
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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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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Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
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While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride.
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That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
