Adrian Younge Quotes

Cee Lo - to me, his voice is classic; I've personally said to him before, 'For me, your voice is as special as a Michael Jackson vocal,' because of what he can do, his range. I said that to him, and I mean that.

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• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Up
  • Money
  • City

• The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Yourself
  • Humor

• When you have girl children they torture you!

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Girl
  • You

• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  

  Mae West
  • English
  • Body
  • Speak

• Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Choose
  • Seem
  • Theme

• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Music
  • Nice

• It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Coffee

• Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Books

• I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.

  

  Zendaya
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Star

• When the country is at war, you need to support the president.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Country
  • War
  • Support

• Ice Cube's the coolest dad. A lot of parents - a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool. Oh, no. My dad's cool... You know, I was born in 1991. That's when 'Boyz n the Hood' came out. So I've always see him on TV. I don't see everybody else's dad, you know. So I've always had a sense of, you know, he's cool. He's in the light.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Light

• It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • She
  • Lost

• Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• 'What harm have the trees done them?' he said. 'Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Done

• A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Long

• I went to school in Long Beach, and all the seniors I used to kick it with called me Pac.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Long
  • School
  • Beach

• Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Good

• The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Hand

• While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

  

  Jerrold Nadler
  • Truth
  • Simple

• I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Government
  • Answers
  • Example

• Cee Lo - to me, his voice is classic; I've personally said to him before, 'For me, your voice is as special as a Michael Jackson vocal,' because of what he can do, his range. I said that to him, and I mean that.

  

  Adrian Younge