Adam Sandler Quotes
My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.
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At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.
