Adam Conover Quotes
I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
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People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.
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People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008.
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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
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Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.
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Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.
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'If there's a locked door, I start to make up all kinds of stories about what might be behind it. I feel like it's some kind of secret, and it leads to me making up lies. But if all the doors are open, physically and metaphorically, there's only the one truth.'
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I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it.
