Adam Jones Quotes
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.
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I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.
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Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
