Steven Adams (Steven Funaki Adams) Quotes

New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.

Steven Adams

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• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• We all get self-centered.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Get
  • Self-centered

• Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Career

• For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Help
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Together
  • Happily

• Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Rest
  • Body
  • End

• If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Enemy
  • Dope

• Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Back
  • Talk

• It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

  

  Maimonides
  • May
  • True
  • Problems

• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Empathy

• In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • You
  • Train
  • Compromise

• To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Fight
  • Self

• The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Agree

• I have never joined the Facebook world because, to be truthful, social media scares me to death. It is kind of crazy how huge that world is, so I have never joined Facebook, but I do have Instagram and Twitter.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • World
  • Death
  • Crazy

• It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is about what feminism is. Feminism is about demonizing . Feminism is a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about oppression, it’s about hatred, it’s about harming men. I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it. It’s very confusing.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Men
  • Women

• My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Food

• To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

  

  John Ridley
  • Up
  • Black
  • Food

• New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.

  

  Steven Adams
  • Food
  • Better
  • New Zealand