Douglas Adams Quotes
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Values are more important than money.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!
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I started out producing theatre in New York.
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I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.
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Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.
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As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
