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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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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Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
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The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
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I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.
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If when we judged others, our real motive was to destroy evil, we should look for evil where it is certain to be found, and that is in our own hearts. But if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves.
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The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.
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A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
