Adam West Quotes

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

  

  Carl Safina
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Different
  • Oil

• Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • High
  • Risk
  • Race

• I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Really
  • Competitive
  • Tend

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Lives
  • Dramatic
  • Bar

• Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

  

  Iman
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Said

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Bad
  • Forever
  • Guilty

• Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Vision
  • Daily
  • Changes

• Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Books
  • Many
  • Possessions

• Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • American
  • Military

• Clichés are the armature of the Absolute. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).

  

  Alfred Jarry

• I've always considered myself a person of color.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Color

• I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Black
  • Humanity

• It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World

• The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Energy

• I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Different
  • America
  • Best

• A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • People
  • May

• The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

  

  Adam West