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Douglas Adams Quotes

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

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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Mirror You Pictures Out Tell Give

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Identity Questions More Audience

I was raised watching sitcoms, and I love long-form comedy.

Jermaine Fowler

Love Comedy Watching I Was Raised

While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.

Jenny Zhang

School Me Growing Up Immigrants Up

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

Meg White

Good Opportunity Travel Cool Meet

With clear definitions and a taxonomy that illustrates their relationships, the Inventure Cycle defines the pathway from inspiration to implementation. This framework captures the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.

Steve Blank

Innovation Ideas World Skills Bring

I'm a big fruit-and-vegetable kind of guy.

Sonny Perdue

Kind Big Guy

My education was an education by movies.

Robert Benton

Education Movies

Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune.

Rory Bremner

Man Hill Never Theme Room Seem

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.

Michael Moore

You Want Class Out Working Get

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

Pain Criticism Attention Body Human

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

Rickie Lee Jones

Accomplish Accomplished Musician

Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.

Rex Hunt

Life People Saying Think Worry Too