James Randolph Adams Quotes
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.
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I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.
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Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
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When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it.
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
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Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
