Adam Beach Quotes
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
