Bryan Adams Quotes
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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I've been looking for a woman to save my lifeNot to beg or to borrowA woman with the feeling of losing once or twice.
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Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.
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You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
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My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
