Christopher Paolini Quotes

‘I am not who I was, but I know who I am.’

Christopher Paolini

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• I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • People
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• My greatest regret is selling my company.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Company
  • Regret
  • Greatest

• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Sex
  • Better

• I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Road

• Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Family
  • Art
  • Job

• Frankly, I don't like publicity.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Like
  • Publicity
  • Frankly

• If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Love

• There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • New
  • Being
  • Darkness

• Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men

• Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work

• Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Improvement

• One day Eugène Boudin said to me, '..appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky'. I took his advice and together we went on long outings during which I painted constantly from nature. This was how I came to understand nature and learned to love it passionately.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Long
  • Together
  • Nature

• For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Angel

• Sex is like a beautiful meeting of genitalia. It's the dance of love between a penis and vagina.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Beautiful
  • Dance
  • Sex

• Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Time
  • Lost

• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Learn

• Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• For makeup, I swear by a base of Embryolisse, Nars concealer, that Bobbie Brown foundation stick, Pat's highlighter, a brow fill-in with dark brown eyeshadow and angle brush, a groom with Anastasia brow gel, an eyelash curl, and two swipes of drugstore mascara.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Dark
  • Makeup
  • Foundation

• If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Needs

• The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Influence

• ‘I am not who I was, but I know who I am.’

  

  Christopher Paolini