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

• 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

• For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Up

• We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

  

  Leon Jouhaux
  • Knowledge
  • Reflection

• The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Justice
  • Independence

• I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

  

  Charles Saatchi
  • Up
  • Work
  • Believe

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • Women
  • Real
  • Picture

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

  

  Adam Conover
  • Knowledge
  • Goal
  • Improve