Christopher Priest Quotes
I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
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Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.
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Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
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So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved.
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I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: 'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'
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My expectations are incredibly high.
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When I finished 'P.S. I Still Love You,' I truly was done with the series. I kept saying the books were two halves of a heart. But I suppose time and space had made me nostalgic, because my mind kept drifting back to Lara Jean and Peter, wondering what they were up to.
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The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.
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We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.
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This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
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Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
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Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
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With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're creating this thing and then it's also going to live with black folks on the street and protests and organizations.' It was very important for us to use the hashtag as a way to have a larger conversation and as an organizing tool.
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I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
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Growing up, my dad was a pastor, and much like The First Family or people in front of the public eye, we were highly scrutinized as a family within the church and looked at as - well, I guess you would call an example of what that family image should be.
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I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.
