Adam Davidson Quotes
I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.
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Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!
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Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.