Christopher Guest Quotes
I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I am not honest.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
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People in America think of it as a sad and downtrodden place, and I guess it could be, but it's not because that's not who Cubans are. In Cuba, you get a good story every day you go out walking. People are so funny.
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Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.
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The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.
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Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
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After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.
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I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
