Patrick J. Adams Quotes

My dad was a journalist. One great trip we took was to Israel. We went there and drove through the whole country, and it was pretty incredible. We went to the Philippines and saw the beauty of that country but also what poverty really looks like. That had a profound effect on me.

Patrick J. Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 27, 1981

Topics

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Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WritingBookStoryYouWayNever

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

John Coleman

TodayHeartMeStoryEndStand

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

Anderson East

SchoolBackGoBack To SchoolHad

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

Matt Mullenweg

PeopleWinFreeBelieveBetterYou

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.

Angela Merkel

ConflictWorldPoliticalYouTry

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

Michael Cimino

PeopleMoviesPointTellStories

When I guard LeBron, I used to always want him to shoot, but he would just make the right play. He's legendary for making the right play, and it's really hard to guard when you're a team player.

Metta World Peace

TeamYouPlayWantHardRight

We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.

Tony Parker

FocusToughStrongBetterSchedule

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Robert Duvall

LifeLoveBestBlackChurchMy Life

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

Rudolf Arnheim

MindUnderstandHumanAnythingOrder

I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Jay DeMarcus

PerformanceSongThinkBetterMagic

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

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