Alvin Adams Quotes
Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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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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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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A horse at the end of the race...A dog when the hunt is over...A bee with its honey stored...And a human being after helping others. They don't make a fuss about it. They just go on to something else, as the vine looks forward to bearing fruit again in season. We should be like that. Acting almost unconsciously. (Hays translation)
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I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
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Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
