Christopher Voss Quotes
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.
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I hate watching myself on TV.
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The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
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Most people offer obvious telltale signs when they're lying.
