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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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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My form remains one, though the matter in it changes continually. I am, in that respect, like a curve in a waterfall.
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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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Creed's sound is my sound.
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A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.
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Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
