Adam West Quotes
I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.
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My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.
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The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
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And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
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I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
