John Adams Quotes
Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Why does God endow us with compassion?
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Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
