Adrian Younge Quotes

I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.

Adrian Younge

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LoveHistoryCultureForwardPush

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

John F. Kennedy

FootballPoliticsYouGoSeeHole

With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.

John Legend

CoolSayingChoicesCareYouLoving

As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.

Robert Hilburn

WorkFriendshipPeopleMeYouNever

When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.

Johnny Colt

GrowYouAtlantaGrow UpUpRolling

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

John Sulston

ImportantInvestmentOilCastles

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

Amiri Baraka

Be KindPeopleTryingI CanKind

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

Stephen Jay Gould

HistoryTimeRiseEqualThrough

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.

Stefan Edberg

GoodMistakeHotNextJustMade

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

Ski Mask the Slump God

TimeGoNervousStageBeforeEvery

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

Debbie Macomber

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When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

Cloris Leachman

FunnyTimeSomethingTruly

My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.

Anton du Beke

FatherEndHereFiftiesMovedMum

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