Christopher Lasch Quotes
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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As a boy I was very solitary but blissfully happy. We lived on the edge of town in Wexford and I wandered the fields with my dog, declaiming Keats to the trees.
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Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
