Adam Davidson Quotes
The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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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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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.
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People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.
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It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
