Charlie Adam Quotes

I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It's a privilege to play with him: he is breathtaking at times.

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• I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Book
  • Fan
  • Comic

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parents

• If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • You
  • Will
  • Intellectual

• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Day

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Son
  • Oppression
  • Crown

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Think
  • Change
  • Inspired

• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Even

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Rights
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Live
  • Children
  • See

• It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

  

  Lactantius
  • May
  • Heaven
  • Mountain

• Where liberty dies, evil grows.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Evil
  • Liberty
  • Where

• My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Grandmother

• I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Before
  • Sixteen
  • Partying

• I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Time
  • House

• When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnot like it, and I didnot inhale, and I never tried again.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • England
  • Marijuana

• I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Problems
  • Harmony
  • Scientific Progress

• I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It's a privilege to play with him: he is breathtaking at times.

  

  Charlie Adam