Samuel Adams Quotes
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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That record she did with Peter Gabriel saved my life. That record helped me get sober. So she played a big part in my actual downfall and kind of 'rebirth'' as it were. That record helped me so much. I never told her that, but it did.
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I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.
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Not every website has that kind of success. We just have a highly targeted audience.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
