Adam Schlesinger Quotes
With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.Adam Schlesinger
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane -
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
Irina Shayk -
I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
Ted Yoho -
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
Samuel Barber -
I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
Ingrid Betancourt
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
Zooey Deschanel -
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
Harley Viera-Newton -
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
Laura Fraser -
There is no one true church.
Pat Buckley -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
Maelle Gavet -
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming -
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
Karolyn Grimes -
I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
Hannah Simone -
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo -
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
Ted Williams
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
Brown Campbell -
Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.
Desmond Dekker -
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
Mark Foley -
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
Enrico Caruso -
With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.
Adam Schlesinger