Adam Gollner Quotes
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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And with the Afghan war ending, this needs to be the year Congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, because we counter terrorism not just through intelligence and military action but by remaining true to our constitutional ideals and setting an example for the rest of the world.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.
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Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
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Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt with any kind of emotional situation or conflict by doing something concrete and specific. Discussion of cramps and heavy flow at the breakfast table? He was up and out the door to change oil on one of our cars. Coming home in tears for reasons you just didn't want to discuss? He'd go make you a grilled cheese, which he'd probably end up eating. Family crisis brewing in a public place? Bags. Get the bags.
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It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.
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Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.
