Adam Conover Quotes
In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're there.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I'm a dork!
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
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It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
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The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.
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In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're there.
