Steven Adams (Steven Funaki Adams) Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We all get self-centered.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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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.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
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Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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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.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
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[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
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New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.
