John Adams Quotes
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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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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 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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
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I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.
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I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
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As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
