Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I travel, a lot, to research the locales for the books. I have professional contacts that I can ask questions of or show them scenes to vet.
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For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
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There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
