John Adams Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I have fabulous children.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
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My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!
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Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
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I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (23 February 1940)
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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
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When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.
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The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us seems such a kind thing now. I know it has always been so, but somehow I didn’t see how wise it was when it didn’t seem kind… Remind me of this when I cannot regard His love as considerate some time.
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
