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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Therapy is so personal but it can be a really amazing tool so long as you are not forced into it.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
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There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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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'.
