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.
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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.
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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.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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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.
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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.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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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.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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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.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
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Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.
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We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'
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A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
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The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
