Adrian Tomine Quotes
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.
Garry Kasparov
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For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.
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I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
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When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
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It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.
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The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good, may not be so good.
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I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.
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I hated 'Dilbert.'
