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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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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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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Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
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'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.
