Red Adair (Paul Neal "Red" Adair) Quotes
Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.
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He's a Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
