Christopher Guest Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
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Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'
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We wrote to them yesterday and we are waiting for more answers." ()
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.
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I love being with my family and just being a regular person.
