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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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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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.
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You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.
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Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University.
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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.
