John Adams Quotes
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
Pat Gillick -
When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
Wayne Knight -
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
Kate Williams
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
Carl Lewis -
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Salma Hayek -
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
Barry Eisler -
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
Damon Lindelof
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
Sam Raimi -
KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
Frances McDormand -
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama -
I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. Mark Felt -
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
Vagit Alekperov -
For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
Anton Zaslavski
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The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
Pankaj Mishra -
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
Walt Mossberg -
I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
A. J. Foyt -
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
Chris Terrio -
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
John Podhoretz -
I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
John Adams