Douglas Adams Quotes
I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
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It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
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I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.
