Adam Fletcher Quotes
In the company of something so much larger than yourself, you’re reminded how small, petty, and insignificant the problems of your life are.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
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The unity is brought about by force.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.
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My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.
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I try to only go out twice a week. More than that would leave me feeling pretty run down.
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I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.
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It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.
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Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.
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I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.
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You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.
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In the company of something so much larger than yourself, you’re reminded how small, petty, and insignificant the problems of your life are.
