Adam Rogers Quotes
There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense:Sex to the last.
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If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
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There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic.
