Erik Adigard Quotes
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
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If there is a misuse of power, it is on her part. My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular - I admit that much - and I have paid too little attention to fools who are old enough to be senile but young enough to have power.
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I quite like doing laundry. I find it quite like relaxing.
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There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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People sometimes say that about my interiors; they seem to believe that comfortable seating and classic modern design don’t go together. But they do. Their points are the same: to make life work better.
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I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
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At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.
