Adam Schlesinger Quotes
I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
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I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the bottom of a river, At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, My mind moves in more than one place, In a country half-land, half-water. I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September, The wind fanning the ash of a low fire. What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air.
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I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind.
