John Adams Quotes
There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.
Quotes to Explore
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.
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You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
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I absolutely believe in the power of innovative entrepreneurship on every level. That's why I am exploring ways to improve our education system by making it as effective as a private tutor and as engaging as video games.
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Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.
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The learning process continues until the day you die.
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I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
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I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.
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There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.
