Adam Conover Quotes
That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.
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I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.
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I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh.
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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
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Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
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The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it.
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True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
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What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie Sanders when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.
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Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can, it's my way of understanding the world around me and staying constantly engaged with it, the more carefully and patiently I look at what interests me in the world the more faithfully and honestly I can document it. It is only through intense, subtly nuanced observation that we develop an understanding of the psychology of the subject.
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What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.
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That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.
