Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the face of extreme provocation is something every single person on the planet could learn from.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
