Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
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I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
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So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
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I'm cranky.
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The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.
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You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.
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I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.
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Only in marriage do love and time, eternal enemies, join forces.
