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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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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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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I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.
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My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.
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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
