John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
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This is the last of Earth! I am content.
