Adam Rifkin Quotes
A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
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I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
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Ideas come through us, not from us.
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.
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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'
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The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.
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A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
