John Adams Quotes
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
