Jim Adkins Quotes
Gil didn't know us well, which was good. It made us step up and really make an effort. We had only made albums with one person in ten years. It helped to have an outside perspective.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it's to be a basketball player or scientist... if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.
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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
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If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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Gil didn't know us well, which was good. It made us step up and really make an effort. We had only made albums with one person in ten years. It helped to have an outside perspective.
