Chris Adrian Quotes
When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
-
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
-
I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
-
When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
-
Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
-
I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
-
I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
-
I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
-
Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
-
People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
-
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
-
As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.
-
Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...
-
'I’m not a demagogue.''That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues-to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.'
-
100 years from now? All new people.
-
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.
-
If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
-
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.
-
I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
-
The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
-
It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
-
We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.
-
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
-
When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.
