Christopher Paolini Quotes
When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy.
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If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.
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I used to be really wild and dissatisfied and angry and had a journey toward becoming a lady; I think that's with anybody coming into their own power.
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When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.