Adam Duritz Quotes

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

Adam Duritz Matt Malley

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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Retirement

• I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Religious
  • Spiritual
  • Human

• I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Want

• I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Attention

• As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Water

• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Constitution

• The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Mirror

• I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Image
  • Drugs

• When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Community
  • Christian

• Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Happy
  • Way

• To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Confusion
  • Japan
  • Combat

• My wife and I keep fighting about sex and money. I think she charges me too much.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Money
  • She
  • Wife

• There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Past
  • Wish
  • Gay

• My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Stills

• Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Entertainment
  • Misery