Adrian Younge Quotes
It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.
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(On drug laws): Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
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I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.
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I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.
