Adam Carolla Quotes
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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A penny saved is two pence clear.
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There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
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I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.
