Adam Baldwin Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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On a couple of occasions in the last weeks, I just said some things that weren‘t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And you know, I‘m embarrassed by it. I‘m very sorry I said it. I have said that, you know, it just didn‘t jive with what I had written about and knew to be the truth.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
