Christine Quinn Quotes
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I've tried to hide my light under a bushel, it's never done me any good.
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Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
