Adrian Gostick Quotes
As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I love to write.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.
