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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• 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
  • People
  • House
  • Attention

• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• 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
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• I wish I sang better.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Wish
  • Better
  • I Wish

• 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.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Chance

• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Great
  • Copy

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Sister

• 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.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Fun
  • Relationships
  • Mentor

• I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Trust

• I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.

  

  Doris Eaton Travis
  • Great
  • Music

• However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Experience
  • Focus

• I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

  

  Jonathan Haidt

• The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Work

• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Society
  • Words