Adrian Rogers Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
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People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.
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For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.
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It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
