Adam DeVine Quotes
I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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We always go into a game to win.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
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My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.
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A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
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Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
