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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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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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.
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Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.
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There are so many people I wish I could have met:
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
