John Adams Quotes
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.
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The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
