Adam Hochschild Quotes
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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A well begun is half ended.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
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Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.
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As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
