John Adams Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
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I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
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Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.
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The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
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Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
