Christopher Voss Quotes
Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It's really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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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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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.'
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In 2000, he offended a Billings woman when he pointed to her nose ring and asked her what tribe she was from.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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Love cannot be defined, caught, cast in stone, or archived. It's something we have no control over. Love is completely analog. Love can never be digital.
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I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.
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Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
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I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It's really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.
