Chester Bennington Quotes
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
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When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
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I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
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I'm always honest.
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History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
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I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
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My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
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There are three kinds of people-the living, the dead, and those at sea.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness-calling their denial knowledge.
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That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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I don't go out and pick fights.
