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'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
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I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
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Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
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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.