Gerry Adams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
-
Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
-
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.
-
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
-
It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
-
I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
-
Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.
-
Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
-
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.
-
When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
-
I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
-
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?
-
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
-
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.
-
I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
-
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
-
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.
-
I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.
-
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
-
If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
