Adam Jones Quotes
In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
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Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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I cannot believe the president searched the country and was unable to find a qualified female nominee, ... More likely, he was unable to find a qualified female nominee who satisfied that far right wing of the Republican Party.
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Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
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If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
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Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful.
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
