Christopher Paolini Quotes
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
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I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
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Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
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I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.
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Better to die than to live in fear.
