John Adams Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.
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You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.
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The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
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Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.
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I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.
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There are few people in this world with whom I can converse.
