Christine Lahti Quotes
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.
