Douglas Adams Quotes
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I would never walk off any show.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
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At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
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Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
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I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.
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I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.
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I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
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It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
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Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.
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Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
