John Adams Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
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No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
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I sometimes forget that my vision of the world is not remotely anyone else's.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
