Adam Haslett Quotes
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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.
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Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]
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Each man believes only his experience.
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I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
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My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
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It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.
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Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged end up in court.
