Adrian Durham Quotes
It was a surreal experience watching Tahiti winning friends for being useless at FIFA's second most prestigious tournament.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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I get homesick.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it’s going to betray you-
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For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.
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I don't go for the flash and panache.
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I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.
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It was a surreal experience watching Tahiti winning friends for being useless at FIFA's second most prestigious tournament.
