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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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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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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Stuffed cherry tomatoes are satisfying without being filling and make a great alternative to bread-based starters. You can assemble these appetizers ahead of time and refrigerate them until you're ready to serve.
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“Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it.”
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
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Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.
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Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
