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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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 grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.
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I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.
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I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
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I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.
