John Adams Quotes

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it.

John Adams

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• Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Heart
  • Brain

• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Business
  • Together

• I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Europeans
  • Italians

• I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Exercise
  • Facts
  • Patience

• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Audience

• I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Chance
  • Luck
  • Fish

• When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Perception

• I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Lost
  • Journey
  • More

• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Moving
  • Sea
  • Happen

• Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Good
  • Man
  • Good Man

• When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Driving

• I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Money
  • Working
  • Group

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Certain coincidences risk passing unnoticed; certain people have appeared in our lives on several occasions without our realizing it.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • People
  • Risk

• He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Learning

• The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the old henhouse, A beating of a hammer.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Rain

• Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Life
  • Points
  • Turning

• I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I think the best tip I've ever learned is contouring with a really light concealer under the eye around the nose. And then powdering over it immediately. It makes it stay and gives it a natural look.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Light

• To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People
  • Help
  • Health care

• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it.

  

  John Adams