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Douglas Adams Quotes

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

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Weather Farmer You Complaining Fix

I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Mother Path People Opportunities She

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

John Kricfalusi

Style Perspective Purpose Cool Look

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

John Holdren

Yourself Balance Environmental You

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.

Robert Gottlieb

Work Future Knowledge View Table

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.

Jeff Kinney

Children Me Growing Up Growing Now

The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

Stephen F. Lynch

Job People Weather Loss Talking

Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Time Believe Political Way Old Same

I'm not here to criticize anyone.

Tommy Wiseau

Here Criticize Anyone

There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.

Tony Hale

Process You Leave Little Show

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

Robbie Williams

Responsibility Solo Act Being Huge

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Rodney Stark

Thinking Mean Word Theology Most

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

Jason Kander

Hope Kind Fraud Lightning Greater