Adam Quotes

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.

I get depressed at airports.

Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

I think work begets work.

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

having enough for now, while not harming the future.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they can let us know immediately.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.