Adam Schlesinger Quotes

Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.

Adam Schlesinger

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My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that was enough. And, of course, that was true. Nothing could have been enough.

Jesse Andrews

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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

John Berger

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When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.

Andy Dunn

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I'm not defining Christians as Jews or Jews as Christians or zebras as elephants.

Ann Coulter

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It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

Spike Lee

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I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.

Shirley Chisholm

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I think it's a not-uncommon experience for gay boys, young men, and even older men to spend a lot of time in the company of women.

Rumaan Alam

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I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Michael Phelps

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I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Jason Robert Brown

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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Phyllis Schlafly

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I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.

Preity Zinta

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For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Payne Stewart

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