Christopher Poole Quotes
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don't raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don't know what you're talking about.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.
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You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.
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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
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Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
