Douglas Adams Quotes
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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To me, my business is my life.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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Nothing lasts forever in my profession.
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I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.
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I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
