Christopher Voss Quotes
Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
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If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
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If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
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Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
