Adam DeVine Quotes
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
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My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.
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All three of us boys, we grew up playing soccer. It was all of our first love. One of my coaches actually wanted me to try out for the U.S. national team, but I decided to quit to pursue football.
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My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
