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 ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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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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I never thought I would become an actress. I always wanted to get into politics, and I moved to Argentina and worked for the U.S. embassy for a bit. It sort of happened upon me when I was home for the holiday - acting, that is - and I stuck with it.
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The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
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The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
