Adrian Desmond Quotes
A man got up after one of Huxley's 'sermons' and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.
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I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.
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In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
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It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
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A man got up after one of Huxley's 'sermons' and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.
