John Quincy Adams Quotes
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.
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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
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How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
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We have teams pressing us. We have teams that are almost in the same situation as we are. It would be great for us to step ahead of them and up the ladder in our standings.
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Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.
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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.