Christopher Lasch Quotes
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
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If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'
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'Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.'
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Love is the HeavenToward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures - you and IAre rushing by the straight path of action right,Or winding laboriously on error’s path,All to reach haven there at last.
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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love - that was an incredible feeling. But there's something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword.
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Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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Me, personally, I'm going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That's what I do best.
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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
