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Dean Acheson Quotes

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Dean Acheson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: american
Birth: April 11, 1893 - October 12, 1971

Topics

Father Important More Must Example

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Jim Wallis

Life Believe Church Values I Believe

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Jerome Kern

Music Me Better Credit Write Like

Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'

Anderson Silva

Think Questions Matter Ask Asking

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

Amanda Hearst

People Try Always Line Up Stay

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Sonny Rollins

Me Saying Think Musicians I Can Go

My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico with the men in her life. Her brothers abused her. It's very easy to be judgmental, but more often than not, there are mitigating circumstances, and children are not usually aware of those.

Rita Moreno

Life Mother Children Men Me Mystery

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Fan Paul Huge Anderson Thomas

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

Love Alone Beginning End Find Two

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Jonathan Kozol

Black Political White Three Become

I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different.

Jon Pardi

Fun Have Fun Nothing Try Stage Out

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

Derek Walcott

College Literature Heritage Citizen

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

Job Start Book Think Thinking Know