Christopher Lasch Quotes
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
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A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.
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When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
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But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
