Abigail Adams Quotes

To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

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• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • True
  • Best
  • Optimist

• I'm a real romantic.

  

  Vanity
  • Real
  • Romantic

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Basketball

• Imagination needs to be fed.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Imagination
  • Needs
  • Fed

• That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Race
  • U.S.
  • Striving

• When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Golf

• Without music, life would be a blank to me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Music

• Oh, rose that blushes with my love Please help me to compose The words I wish to speak aloud To one who'd make me proud If she would hold her hand in mine And both our hearts entwine..

  

  Stephen Gately Boyzone
  • Help
  • Words
  • Proud

• My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Dad

• One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

  

  David Milne
  • People
  • Good

• To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Good
  • Words