Hasil Adkins Quotes
I got me girlfriend Hazel Jean, and I just like where I come from. But don't get me wrong, I love all the country, but I still love where I come from.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
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Aristotle once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. I think it's time to examine what we do once more in the spirit of a critical friend. Let's pause for a moment to consider what we need to examine.
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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-For years fleet away with the wings of the dove- The dearest remembrance will still be the last,Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
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I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I got me girlfriend Hazel Jean, and I just like where I come from. But don't get me wrong, I love all the country, but I still love where I come from.
