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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‘I cannot forgive, but I understand.’
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I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
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I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
