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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• I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • True
  • Care
  • Thought

• 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

• History and geology show what an eyeblink it’s been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

  

  David Brin
  • Up
  • History
  • Culture

• Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Rich
  • Man Is
  • Cycle

• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Up
  • Song
  • Failure

• 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