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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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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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
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While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.
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The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.
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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.
