Adi Shankar Quotes
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
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One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.
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I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.
