Adam Conover Quotes
That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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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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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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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 wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.
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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
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Oh, no single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’
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Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.
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Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.
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That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.
