Gerry Adams Quotes
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
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I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
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The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?
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Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
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We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.
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In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
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The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.
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If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
