John Quincy Adams Quotes

I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

John Quincy Adams

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• When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • School
  • Service
  • Retirement

• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Practice
  • Road
  • Boy

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Energy
  • City
  • Hard

• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Important
  • Think

• It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Parents
  • Voice
  • Gift

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Life
  • Different
  • Remember

• I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Resources
  • Wealthy

• My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • World
  • Dad

• I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Young
  • Now
  • Boring

• My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Remember
  • Teacher
  • Name

• Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Character
  • Understanding

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • New
  • Architecture

• I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Girl

• I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

  

  John Quincy Adams