John Quincy Adams Quotes
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.
Quotes to Explore
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.
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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.
