Christopher Voss Quotes
People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
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I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.
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With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.
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Obviously, you get to do a lot of great things and cool opportunities at the Super Bowl. But at the end of the day, we all want to be here as a player. That's the goal, and that's why I work so dang hard.
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You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.
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People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.
