Adrian Younge Quotes
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
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When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
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I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
