John Adams Quotes
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I wish I sang better.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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Time is a dream, he thinks, a destroying dream;It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.Where was the woman he loved? Where was his youth?Where was the dream that burned his brain like fire?Even a dream grows grey at last and falls.
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It's not about the script: it's about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.
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I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.
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Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato Essandoh, and they recognize it as a Ghanaian name. They come up to me and are always so excited. You don't think about it, but they really absorb American culture.
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It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
