Adam Rapp Quotes

When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

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• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
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  • Me

• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Reading

• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
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• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
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• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
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• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Star
  • Organization
  • New England Patriots

• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Future
  • Vision

• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Stand

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
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• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Performance

• Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

  

  T-Pain
  • Long
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• Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Why
  • Home
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• We often think that when a man insults another man by calling him a 'girl,' the insult reflects a contempt for women. No. It reflects a contempt for any man who is unwilling to make himself strong enough to protect someone as precious as a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Strong

• The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Together
  • Light

• I'm always working on new music.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music

• It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

  

  Dustin Moskovitz
  • Money
  • Leaving

• When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • Women
  • School
  • Kids