Adrien Brody Quotes
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
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Not to be biased, but digital wallets are awesome.
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If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.
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There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
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My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
