Samuel Adams Quotes
If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
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Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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It is processes that are important.
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I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
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The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.
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Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
