Adam Schlesinger Quotes
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
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I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.
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It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.
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I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.
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Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.
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It seems so strange that the things I was chasing Have all evaporated like a distant dream Petty ambition, petty obstruction Something in between... I really thought it would go on forever Never believed they would sever the ties All of the questions remaining unanswered A stranger's reflection in a stranger's eyes...
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I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.
