John Adams Quotes
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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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.
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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.'
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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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.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I wish I sang better.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
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When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.
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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
