Adam Fletcher Quotes
I hadn’t realised then that the only way you know that something has value is if you find yourself willing to make sacrifices for it.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.
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It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
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I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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I hadn’t realised then that the only way you know that something has value is if you find yourself willing to make sacrifices for it.
