Adam Gopnik Quotes

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Adam Gopnik

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The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

Jerry Only

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Good barbecue has to fall off the bone when you grab it, and, to me, it's not pull-hard chewy.

Sinbad

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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Sun Tzu

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I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks.

Steve-O

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Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Steven Moffat

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We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

Rob Machado

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With Moloko, we tried to be the opposite of what was out there at the time. I like to be different. In the mid-Nineties, music was quite dour and serious, and everything was dressed down. So we went the other way. Our first record was about not wanting to do four-to-the-floor dance music.

Roisin Murphy

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I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it's made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it's a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it's this amazing modern kaleidoscope.

Doug Aitken

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Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

Norman Geisler

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I remember being young in the backseat when my grandma would take me to school, and I would be literally singing and belting out Tina Turner at 3 years old.

Normani Kordei

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The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Richard P. Feynman

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The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Leigh Steinberg

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