Adrian Younge Quotes
To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
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One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.
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The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.
