Adele Quotes
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
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Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made
