Christopher Poole Quotes
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.
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I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt - all of these things are valuable, if not more valuable, than running for office.
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Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
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I don’t know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I’ll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
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Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.
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I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
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I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
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I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.
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Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.
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In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.
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