Adam Lambert Quotes

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

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• I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

  

  Samantha Bee
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  • Politicians

• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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  • Music

• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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  • You

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

  

  Walter Mosley
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• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
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  • Different

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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  • Energy
  • Feel

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

  

  Uwe Boll
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  • Matrix

• I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

  

  Ursula Andress
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  • Run

• Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
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• Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Energy
  • Memories

• The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Time
  • Integrity
  • New York

• I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.

  

  Joanna Going
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  • Grandmother

• Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

  

  Lyman Abbott
  • Life
  • Temptation
  • March

• I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

  

  Adam Lambert
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