Christina Baker Kline Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
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In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
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I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.
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Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.
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If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics 'until later', don't think that you've 'gotten away with it so far'. Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
