John Adams Quotes
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.
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I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.
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I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
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Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers.
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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
