Adam Carolla Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
-
We need to see a Palestinian state.
-
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
-
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
-
For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
-
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
-
Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
-
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
-
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
-
There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
-
The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.
-
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
-
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
-
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
-
Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
-
It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.
-
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.
-
The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
