Adam Barreto:
CLASS OF 1999
East Leyden High SchoolClass of 1999
Franklin park, IL
Adam's Story
Adam is from Schiller Park, Illinois. Adam's schools include East Leyden High School. Adam later attended Northeastern Illinois University (Secondary Education - English) .
Music Adam likes includes Beirut, Of Monsters and Men, Frankie Bones. Books Adam likes include Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Our Mutual Friend, The History of Tom Jones. Movies Adam likes include Casa de mi Padre, Pet Sematary, Napoleon Dynamite. TV shows Adam likes include The Middle, The Soup, Tosh.0.
One of Adam's favorite quotes is:""It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praise-worthy. Here emulation most effectually operates on us, and inspires our Imitation in an irresistible manner. A good Man therefore is a standing Lesson to all Acquaintance, and of far greater use in that narrow Circle than a good Book." - Henry ...Expand for more
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"How strange it is to be anything at all." - Jeff Magnum from Neutral Milk Hotel.
"The most radical division it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort toward perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves." -Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Men who look on nature and their fellow men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and require a clearer vision." -Charles Dickens
"I am overrated," said the sculptress to the sea.
"I've been praised for all the ways the marble leaves the man,
And I was wrong to try and free him." - Owen Pallett (?)".
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