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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When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times - tragically he died of leukemia at a very young age. He talked about how we can have an opportunity to live a lifetime in a moment, in a day, in a month, in a year - when you're confronted with the finite reality of your own existence, all these moments become lifetimes.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
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I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
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What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.
