Douglas Adams Quotes
Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.
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I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.
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We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations; where politics is a zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie - that’s one path. Or we can have the courage to change.
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I prefer 'cooling foods' for the summer - lots of fruits like watermelons, a few strands of kesar with raisins that have been soaked overnight, and lots of coconut water. Dinner is usually dahi chawal. I am a big foodie, so depending on my cravings, I indulge - maybe pasta or risotto.
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Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
