Christopher Plummer Quotes
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
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Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
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You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
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What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
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You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
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I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.
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He awoke-and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.
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The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
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To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.
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Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
