Adam Duritz Quotes
I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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Not everything can be solved quickly.
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Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
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I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.
