Bryan Adams Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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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.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.
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I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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The business of books is the business of life.
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One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.
