Douglas Adams Quotes
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.
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You either are or you're not.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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I love dancing.
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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.
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My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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Two powerful people can't be friends.
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Ariel got me into animation. She was the first Disney heroine that really felt alive. She felt like a real young woman.
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I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.
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The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.
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I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.
