Christopher Dodd Quotes
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
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Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
