Christopher McDougall Quotes
We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.
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Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
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Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
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I like Drake's stuff.
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But liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. It is the realization of those imperishable truths of the Declaration 'that all men are created equal', that the sanction of all just government is 'the consent of the governed'. Can these truths be realized until each man has a right be to heard on all matters relating to himself?
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We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.
