Adam Gidwitz Quotes
You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage.
Quotes to Explore
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
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I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
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Nice guys finish last.
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When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
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Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.
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If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
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I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.
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You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage.
