John Adams Quotes
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I rode a shark once. I wouldn't recommend it. It was fun, but I thought I was going to get eaten the entire time! Nothing against sharks. I love sharks. I just don't think we are meant to ride them.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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I love to conduct opera.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
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Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
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A good runner leaves no footprints.
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The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
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Usually, in a studio, when it's supposed to look cold, it's boiling hot. And then, the hot scenes, you're freezing.
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They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
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