Adam Conover Quotes

I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.

Adam Conover

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• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Believe
  • Brain
  • Thoughts

• Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Bad
  • See

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Opportunity
  • Story
  • Creative

• There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Potential
  • Optimism

• It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine'.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Ladies and gentlemen: War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Good
  • Live
  • Children

• Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • World
  • Different
  • Nature

• A man can preach no better than he prays.

  

  Charles Stanley

• I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

  

  Tony Iommi Black Sabbath
  • Nice
  • Rap

• If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Strong
  • Funny
  • Lion

• My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Dad
  • Crazy
  • Personality

• We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Money
  • Education
  • Health

• My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other country; to see that they may be independent of all and under the influence of none.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Home
  • Character

• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Money
  • Crazy
  • Brain

• Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and coloured and put into cans.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Fear
  • Opinion

• Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Credit
  • Jews
  • Daniel

• I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.

  

  Adam Conover
  • Knowledge
  • Goal
  • Improve