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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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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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 just lost interest in performing.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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'Girls' is one of my favorite shows of all time. One of the things I love about Lena Dunham and Jenji Kohan and Shonda Rhimes is that they're all willing to show complex, amazing women.
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What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don't want to sacrifice time with my children.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
