Christopher Priest Quotes
All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.
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Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
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There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
