Adam Ostrow Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Custom is second nature.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
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