Adrian Younge Quotes
I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.
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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun and creatively invigorating.
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I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.
