Adam Hills Quotes
Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.
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Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
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It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.
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If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.
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I like my coffee light.
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Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
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He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.
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Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.
