Christopher Paolini Quotes
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
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There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
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I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments.
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There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
