Chip Esten Quotes
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other activity so they can turn around and spend them. It's much better if the Bitcoin economy is a self-contained thing.
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As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.
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The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
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When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.