Adam Foulds Quotes
He thought that the edge of the world was a day's walk away, there where the cloud-breeding sky touched the horizon. He thought that when he got there he would find a deep pit and he would be able to look down into it and see the world's secrets.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
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When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.
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I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.
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I would love to do a musical!
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I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.
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Reality shows always look for the worst people.
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I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
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I realized, then, that I had stood without intending to. Flight reaction, I said to myself. Instinctive. Upon experiencing close adversaries. The lizard part of the brain.
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He thought that the edge of the world was a day's walk away, there where the cloud-breeding sky touched the horizon. He thought that when he got there he would find a deep pit and he would be able to look down into it and see the world's secrets.
