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Samuel Adams Quotes

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

Samuel Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: revolutionary
Nationality: american
Birth: September 27, 1722 - October 2, 1803

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Nature Power Men More Human Share

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Jennifer Lee

Food Culture You Back Say Odds

When I first got signed, I used to literally pick up a pen and pad. Write bars in my notes, even whole songs. Nowadays, I just go off the feeling.

Jeremih

Pen Feeling Go Write First Up

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.

John Hawkes

People Weird Someone Los Angeles

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

Melissa McCarthy

Boring Never Playing Been Interested

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

Sophia Myles

Play Want Movies Anything Fact Than

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

Spike Lee

Time Culture Think America You Film

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Tom Hayden

Book Course Taught Gangs Written

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

Chris Vance

World Action Want Boy Kid Star

Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.

Clark Gregg

Man Fun People Saying You Play

I had been exposed to bitcoin early. I thought the consumer application of it felt, to me, further away. I thought there would be faster adoption of the blockchain in the enterprise space and with banks.

Brad Garlinghouse

Space Me Thought Early Blockchain

I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

Ashley Greene

Woman Year Find Play Want Right

The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.

Allison Janney

People Mom Think Why Happen Joke