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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.

  

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• Evil is mostly confusion seeking to evolve itself into love.

  

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• I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.

  

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• When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.

  

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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