James Adomian Quotes
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
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I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
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I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
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When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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Agatha Christie? We go back years, me and Ag. She's a … she's just a … she's dead, isn't she?
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Often the willingness to think differently about a problem and then risk sharing the idea with others certainly pay off.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. The difference is that you can compel your car to go to a garage, but you cannot compel Hitler to go to a psychiatrist.
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I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'
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I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'
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Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
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I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.
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The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.
