James Randolph Adams Quotes
The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
Jack Dee
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Life does not owe me a shred.
Valerie Harper
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
Karen Allen
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
Ice T
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti
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Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
Jaclyn Smith
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo
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On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
James Cronin
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
Rollo May
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
Billy Dee Williams
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Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
William Shakespeare
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The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
James Randolph Adams