John Adams Quotes
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
Laura Trott
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
Ilan Stavans
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.
Barbara Mikulski
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Madeleine Stowe
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It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.
Charles Kelley
Lady Antebellum
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Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past-it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.
John Ashbery
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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
E. W. Howe
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
