Tom Adams quote: "We always seem to get the raw deals. Quebec gave us a raw deal on the hydro. We've got offshore oil, but instead of us getting benefits, it all goes to the U.S. None is refined in Newfoundland. They took away the fisheries but nobody can take this away from us."

The idea that video stores are magically going to go away for some reason is misguided. It is still ...
TOM ADAMS

Give La Salle credit. We knew they had a great pass-rusher in Martin, who is everything they said he...
TOM ADAMS

It's not an option; it's a necessity. We simply need to expand so the community can grow over the ne...
TOM ADAMS

More of this stuff, ... and transportation to places downtown.
TOM ADAMS

Hollywood's video marketers excel at making lemonade out of lemons.
TOM ADAMS

We are excited about the opportunity to provide innovative solutions to SAS, the world's largest pri...
TOM ADAMS

We will miss these young people. They are excellent kids. But we do recognize what the school is goi...
TOM ADAMS

With our value strategy, assets located in major global markets, long- term customers, and talented ...
TOM ADAMS

We climbed the ladder and carefully removed it. The bird was conscious. However, the injury on his l...
TOM ADAMS

I think we need to brace ourselves,
TOM ADAMS

Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM

During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM

Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
YOLANDA ADAMS

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
YOLANDA ADAMS

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of G...
YOLANDA ADAMS

The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I wou...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
YOLANDA ADAMS

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do some...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anythi...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University o...
YOLANDA ADAMS

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something differ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information a...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop...
YOLANDA ADAMS

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
YOLANDA ADAMS

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks i...
YOLANDA ADAMS

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband o...
YOLANDA ADAMS

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whateve...
YOLANDA ADAMS

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a soun...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that yo...
YOLANDA ADAMS

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
JACK ADAMS

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Ja...
JACK ADAMS

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close t...
JACK ADAMS

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
JACK ADAMS

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert ...
JACK ADAMS

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that...
JACK ADAMS

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
JACK ADAMS

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
JACK ADAMS

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
JACK ADAMS

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
JACK ADAMS

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at he...
JACK ADAMS

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
JACK ADAMS

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbe...
JACK ADAMS

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
JACK ADAMS

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
JACK ADAMS

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
JACK ADAMS

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, a...
JACK ADAMS

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one...
JACK ADAMS

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
JACK ADAMS

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai...
GERRY ADAMS

I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
SCOTT ADAMS

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influe...
SCOTT ADAMS

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and de...
SCOTT ADAMS

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your ...
SCOTT ADAMS

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don...
SCOTT ADAMS

I get mail; therefore I am.
SCOTT ADAMS

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
SCOTT ADAMS

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno...
SCOTT ADAMS

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with...
SCOTT ADAMS

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequ...
SCOTT ADAMS

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
SCOTT ADAMS

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryo...
SANDY ADAMS

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes pr...
SAMUEL ADAMS

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know wh...
PATCH ADAMS

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really ...
BRYAN ADAMS

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
BRYAN ADAMS

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, w...
BRYAN ADAMS

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
BRYAN ADAMS

I never had a long-term plan.
BRYAN ADAMS

I'm a complete and utter busker.
BRYAN ADAMS

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wan...
BRYAN ADAMS

I moonlight as a singer.
BRYAN ADAMS

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it&...
BRYAN ADAMS

I pack every minute I can with something to do.
BRYAN ADAMS

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
BRYAN ADAMS

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the botto...
BRYAN ADAMS

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's ...
BRYAN ADAMS

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
BRYAN ADAMS

I like the idea of helping people help people.
BRYAN ADAMS

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I&...
BRYAN ADAMS

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter....
BRYAN ADAMS

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sen...
BRYAN ADAMS

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
BRYAN ADAMS

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my hea...
BRYAN ADAMS

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleas...
BRYAN ADAMS

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media...
BRYAN ADAMS

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on havin...
BRYAN ADAMS

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
BRYAN ADAMS

Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
PATCH ADAMS

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We ...
PATCH ADAMS

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn'...
PATCH ADAMS

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any...
PATCH ADAMS

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. Tha...
PATCH ADAMS

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything a...
PATCH ADAMS

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be...
PATCH ADAMS

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compa...
PATCH ADAMS

I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
PATCH ADAMS

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our societ...
PATCH ADAMS

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've g...
PATCH ADAMS

I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-c...
PATCH ADAMS

The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make mill...
PATCH ADAMS

I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
PATCH ADAMS

I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that...
PATCH ADAMS

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a ...
SCOTT ADAMS

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm a...
JOHN ADAMS

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important...
JOHN ADAMS

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own term...
GERRY ADAMS

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
ABIGAIL ADAMS

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflic...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if the...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there wh...
GERRY ADAMS

Our goal is to help everyone be involved in the full life of the church, not just Sunday morning ser...
ALAN ADAMS

The smaller markets are on a much more even playing field, ... There's keen excitement for the seaso...
ALAN ADAMS

Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Wi...
ALAN ADAMS

Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.
ALAN ADAMS

In Toronto, the Maple Leaf emblem is as strong as the New York Yankees,
ALAN ADAMS

You don't see that in Canada,
ALAN ADAMS

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
EDIE ADAMS

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
EDIE ADAMS

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
GAINES ADAMS

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play...
GAINES ADAMS

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 p...
GAINES ADAMS

Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don't know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try t...
GAINES ADAMS

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
GAINES ADAMS

First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the...
GAINES ADAMS

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
GAINES ADAMS

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get s...
GAINES ADAMS

Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since b...
GAINES ADAMS

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fa...
GAINES ADAMS

You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
GAINES ADAMS

I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
GAINES ADAMS

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and ...
GAINES ADAMS

Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high ex...
GAINES ADAMS

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there...
GERRY ADAMS

You always want to start fast because it gives you a great opportunity, ... Most importantly in Nove...
SAM ADAMS

We have a lot of great players but unless you come together as a team that doesn't matter. We've com...
SAM ADAMS

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all haz...
SAM ADAMS

He was the best schematics coach in the NIFL, ... As far as I'm concerned he can coach with the best...
SAM ADAMS

Arthur is free to use that word censorship if he wants. We are in the business of selling paintings ...
SAM ADAMS

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are redu...
SAM ADAMS

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all haz...
SAM ADAMS

We busted. We all know there's going to be changes ... lots of changes.
SAM ADAMS

He still looks the same to me as he did as a rookie.
SAM ADAMS

I feel the organization did what they felt was best. Playing in Buffalo was one of the greatest expe...
SAM ADAMS

Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks, ... We're excited about playi...
JOEY ADAMS

We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing t...
JOEY ADAMS

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.'
JOEY ADAMS

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
JOEY ADAMS

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
JOEY ADAMS

Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them.
JOEY ADAMS

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.
JOEY ADAMS

A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.
JOEY ADAMS

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions
JOEY ADAMS

Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and reh...
JOEY ADAMS

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he alrea...
HENRY ADAMS

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY ADAMS

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ...
HENRY ADAMS

Morality is a private and costly luxury
HENRY ADAMS

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
HENRY ADAMS

Intimates are predestined
HENRY ADAMS

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY ADAMS

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
HENRY ADAMS

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined...
HENRY ADAMS

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a stea...
HENRY ADAMS

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

We always seem to get the raw deals. Quebec gave us a raw deal on the hydro. We've got offshore oil, but instead of us getting benefits, it all goes to the U.S. None is refined in Newfoundland. They took away the fisheries but nobody can take this away from us.

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We always seem to get the raw deals. Quebec gave us a raw deal on the hydro. We've got offshore oil, but instead of us getting benefits, it all goes to the U.S. None is refined in Newfoundland. They took away the fisheries but nobody can take this away from us.

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