Douglas Adams Quotes
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.
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Fireflies inside of a mason jar,Acting big behind the wheel of daddy's car.Playing church around the old piano stand,You were quite a preacher and oh, we sang so grand.I remember every night what we would say and do:'If you've forgiven me, then I've forgiven you.'And now when life begins to get the best of me,I reminisce these childhood memories.
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I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.
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As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.
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In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.
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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
