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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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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See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.
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Karma is a beneficent law wholly merciful, relentlessly just, for true mercy is not favor but impartial justice.
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If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
