Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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I get depressed at airports.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.
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There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
