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 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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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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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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Our songs all carry the same way.
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I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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I don't fear death. But I don't like being dangled out there like a piece of meat on a fishing rod to it either. If I'm going to die, take me out now. Don't let me suffer. That's not exactly the way I wanted to go. I don't want to be in limbo, I don't want to know that I might die. The mights don't work with me. I'm too literal.
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Since I was a young girl, I always wanted to pursue law studies. I would have never imagined that my career would have taken a complete different route.
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Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
