John Adams Quotes

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

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• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • High
  • Today
  • Values

• You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tom

• What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Love
  • Need

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Earth
  • Me
  • Nobody

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Runner

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Movies

• KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Job
  • Myself

• It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Long
  • Important

• It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Career
  • Achieve
  • Overcome

• I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.

  

  Jared Gilman
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Boy

• The Beatles were perfect. There's just no other way to say it. They were the perfect band.

  

  Danny Wood The Black
  • Perfect
  • Band

• My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

  

  John E. Walker
  • Father

• She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Father
  • Said
  • Healthy

• Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Up
  • Money
  • Value

• I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

  

  John Adams
  • Father