John Adams Quotes

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Adams

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

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• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

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• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

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• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

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• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
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• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
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• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
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• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
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• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
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  • Idea
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• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.

  

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• Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.

  

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• Dennis: She's turned me down. She's broken my heart.Hal: She doesn't know what she is missing, baby.Dennis: But she does! That's what's so humiliating.

  

  Joe Orton
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• The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Mind
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• Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
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• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

  

  John Adams
  • Heart
  • Desire