Adam Quotes
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.
Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.
Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.
When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.
Chicks named Tammy have a greater chance of actually driving a Mercedes than a chick named Mercedes.
There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.
I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.