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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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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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 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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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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Science has no prejudices - though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.
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Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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A defendant who commences and continues to build a project, while a lawsuit is pending which challenges the legality of such a project, continues at the risk of abatement.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
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People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
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