Christopher Voss Quotes
Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.
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The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
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You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
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Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations.
