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John Quincy Adams Quotes

I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

John Quincy Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848

Topics

Day Popularity Hold Grounded Much

I don't care if you're purple. If you're making a catch or going to go down, you could be silver. I couldn't care less, if you're making those plays for the team. If you're a selfless player, nobody pays attention to that at all. White, black, silver, pink, it doesn't matter to me.

Jimmy Graham

Me Team Pink Black Care Selfless

It's a relentless regime with 'Misfits.' I'm actually a little bit nervous of it, because I know it's going to be so tough to film, but we have a good crack at it.

Joe Gilgun

Good Tough Know Nervous Relentless

I wasn't funny. My brother was the funny one in the family.

Jennifer Coolidge

Family Funny Brother

I think a punt can be a big play in a game. If it's anything like a real game, then you realize that a Pat McAfee punt that downs someone inside the 2-yard line can really swing a game. I'm all for punting in video games.

Andrew Luck

Video Games Game Think Someone You

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

Andrew McCarthy

Feel Know Always Different Still

I consume media in a very frenetic, overtweeting way.

Meghan McCain

Media Way Consume Very

The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.

Jeffrey Osborne

Love Beauty Respect Singing Chance

You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.

Matt Haig

Creative Mind You Healthy Human Us

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

Amy Grant

Parents Thought Rebel Plans More

All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the CEO followed by a series of memos to the staff, with lots of posters and one-day workshops. This typically creates 'innovation theater' but very little innovation.

Steve Blank

Innovation Meeting Initiative Little

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

Alphonso Jackson

Home Problems Picture Build Closing

There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early in life. I already had my core when I left my little town in Texas.

Sissy Spacek

Life Me Texas Tradition Long Early