Adrian Rogers Quotes
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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I hate celebrities.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.
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There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.
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The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.
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When we started, we were from the South and we looked the part. Plus there was sex and violence on our first album. People immediately attached themselves to it, especially outside of America, because they see the South as a mythical place.
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The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
