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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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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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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The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
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We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
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I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.
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At the coming of Christ the sons of God will be manifested by the restoration of the lost covering. Nor is it difficult to prove that the recovery of a visible glory will be the instant result of the restoration of spirit soul and body to perfect order and harmony, the sign of our manifestation as the sons of God. But it will then shine with far more intense brilliancy than it did in Adam: for, as we have before seen, the body of unfallen man was not a spiritual body. The spirit did indeed exercise a mighty and vigorous influence, but the soul was the ruling power, even as it continues to be: for the first man became a living soul.[177] But when the resurrection, or the change consequent upon our Lord’s return, takes place, our bodies will become spiritual:[178] the God-consciousness will be supreme in us, holding both soul and body in absolute control, and shedding forth the full power of its glory without let or hindrance.
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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
