Adam Duritz Quotes
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
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People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
