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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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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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 had to overcome bullies and other people who didn't like me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I would set goals, I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important.
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That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict.
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Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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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.
