Adam Gopnik Quotes
Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
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Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
