John Adams Quotes
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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'Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?' asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. 'Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!' answered the divine Sara.
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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
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Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.
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I'd say the best way to train someone is to remember that you have two ears and one mouth, and use them in that ratio. That's hard to do, and ultimately what we've learned is how many false positives you get from listening to what someone says they're going to do instead of observing what they actually do.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
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There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species.
