Adam Yauch Quotes
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
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Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
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I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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Our moms accuse us of selling out all the time, so we're still trying to cope with that. They claim to be true fans, like they've been there from the beginning, and they think that we've kind of, like, changed as humans.
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The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.
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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
