Gaines Adams Quotes
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.
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Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
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I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
