Christopher Reeve Quotes
Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
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An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .
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Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
