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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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 used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
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People ask me, 'What were you thinking during that game-winning penalty kick in the 2011 World Cup?' I was actually thinking absolutely nothing. I just walked up there and was so inspired by my teammates who rocked all their PKs; they just killed it. I figured I might as well do the same, or they might have my neck.
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Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
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Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture, they reverted quickly to their genotype - increasingly typical of black societies around the world. Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America. Females reverted to the age-old African model of maternal provisioning of children.
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I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
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I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.
