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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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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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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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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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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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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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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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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Biology is now accelerating at a pace faster than Moore's Law.
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The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
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I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
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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.
