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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How often had he longed to hold us, hug us, grant our every wish, but held himself back for fear of letting us see his vulnerability, believing as he did that real love demanded not affection but discipline?
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Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
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In the whole world, there might have been as many as ten thousand people who were better than Sokolov at falling and rolling around on hard surfaces. Circus acrobats and aikido masters, mostly. Also included in that group would have been many of the younger Spetsnaz men. The remaining six billion or so living humans did not even enter the picture.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
