Adam Ferrara Quotes
Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.
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By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
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I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.
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It's funny, I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
