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About Gene Roddenberry: "Well, he was a very tall and imposing-looking man, first off. He was a very adamant man. He was also very kind and sweet. He had a lot of sides to him. Our life together was wonderful. It just didn`t go on long enough." (September 2006)

- Majel Barrett

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

- Paul Lynde

But I was determined not to make it bigger and broader for Broadway, and Stephen was just as adamant about this. We wanted to do the same piece of work. Make it clearer and stronger, perhaps, but essentially I never wanted it to change.

- John Doyle

For the most part people were nice and cordial. We only had one guy that was adamant to stay and when he realized we were not the bad guys he was OK,

- Mark Holmes

I`m pretty adamant about making sure of having somebody to hike with me next time, ... I don`t think I`m going to do any solo hikes anymore.

- Angie Carbone

So they (the Government) go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

- Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

- Lao Tzu
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