Adam Conover Quotes
The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
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I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.
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The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
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I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.
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The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.
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anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
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There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
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Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
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Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
