Daniel Adair Quotes
We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.

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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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You have good days and bad days.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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You know what, I had 11 great years with St. Louis. My gosh, those are the best years of my life. And I will never, ever forget that.
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Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates' styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn't know what it wants.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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It's my job to help people so that God can continue to help them live out the mission that they have... they've got to be healthy to do that.
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Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.
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We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.