Christopher Poole Quotes
I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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Honestly, I don't think we see ourselves as stars. That's what the media tags us as. I personally don't think too much about it.
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I do not want to be young again.
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Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.
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I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.
