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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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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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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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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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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It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
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Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
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Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.
