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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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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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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I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
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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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I wanted to be a star - with a purpose.
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I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.
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My muse is the digital world.
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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.
