Adrian Younge Quotes

Sometimes, a concept is needed to spark myself and the vocalist; sometimes a concept isn't necessary for that spark. It all depends on the moment, because I don't want to be that dude that every album has to be this story or that story.

Adrian Younge

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• I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Society
  • Just
  • Opinions

• I have reservations about everything I do.

  

  Larry David
  • Everything
  • Reservations

• There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Time
  • World
  • Single

• Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Different
  • Best
  • Audience

• When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Live
  • Parents
  • City

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Emotional
  • Enough

• It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Rest

• You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Funny
  • Know

• I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Relationship

• I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Different
  • Real
  • Meaning

• I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Myself

• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Stage
  • Morality
  • Boredom

• All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rave

• Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Law
  • Eyes

• My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Fear

• You pray for yourselves and just ask God to guide you and to give you strength.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God

• Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • World
  • Work

• I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Put simply, 'Interstellar' has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Strong

• I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Home

• I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Friendship
  • Lazy

• Sometimes, a concept is needed to spark myself and the vocalist; sometimes a concept isn't necessary for that spark. It all depends on the moment, because I don't want to be that dude that every album has to be this story or that story.

  

  Adrian Younge