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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A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.
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I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
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If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.
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A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
