Christopher Koch Quotes
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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Classical political economy nearly touches the true relation of things,without, however,consciously formulating it. This it cannot so long as it sticks in its bourgeois skin.
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I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.
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'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'
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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Many will there be who will give up work and labour and poverty of life and goods, and will go to live among wealth in splendid buildings, declaring that this is the way to make themselves acceptable to God.
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When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.
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As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.
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I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
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I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.
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Trade is a social act.
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I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
