Christopher Voss Quotes
What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I've gone up and down in my weight - I know my body. And for me, it's easy to go up or down.
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Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
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Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
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What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
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Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
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What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.
