"[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming - a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally riven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners."

-- Gordon S. Wood

#Struggle Quotes #Europe Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.”
“Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.”
“My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.”
“I think itâ€™s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it Iâ€™ve never had any fear in my whole life when weâ€™ve been near collapse and all of that. Iâ€™ve never been afraid. Iâ€™ve never had the feeling I couldnâ€™t walk out and get a job doing something.”
“That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.”
“All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.”

Source : 1989 In the Observer, 15 Jan.
“When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.”

Source : "Navid Negahban: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. November 25, 2009.
“God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.507

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