Adam Duritz Quotes

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

Adam Duritz Matt Malley

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• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Believe
  • Sustainability

• I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Understand
  • Say
  • Wants

• I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Success
  • Earth
  • Justice

• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Rest

• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Fade Away

• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  

  William Penn
  • May
  • Force
  • Hypocrite

• ...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Terror
  • Strikes
  • Anguish

• When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Marry
  • Remind

• We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • People
  • Reality
  • Shadow

• ...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sleep
  • Lord
  • Pray

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• The thing that I've always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It's a complete embrace of something, but I've never been able to say, 'I believe in this.' The only thing I believe in is that I'm in this perpetual state of disbelief.

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Something
  • Embrace
  • Complete

• One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

  

  Georges Simenon
  • Problem
  • Communication
  • Haunt

• Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Live
  • Give
  • Preach

• You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Embrace
  • Figure Out
  • Hold On