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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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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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.
