Adrian Cronauer Quotes
Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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I'm a normal guy.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
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There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody, and then the place that's never been written about.
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What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.
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Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
