Adam Sandler Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.
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I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
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I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.
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I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.
