Douglas Adams Quotes
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
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Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
