Chauncey Billups Quotes
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
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I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
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Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive space, and RAM.
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Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
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The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.
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Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.
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We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.
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Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.
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Everybody has their own desires.
