Christopher Poole Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
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The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.
