Douglas Adams Quotes
The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? 'It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,' came a low growl from somewhere on the table, 'without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.'
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I am searching pure expression of that incomprehensible power, which works universally.
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America's Sweetheart was my one true piece of shit. It has no cohesive thread. I just hate it.
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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
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The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? 'It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,' came a low growl from somewhere on the table, 'without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.'
