Chris Adrian Quotes
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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A 'shared choice' movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
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I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
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There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.
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Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
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I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.
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My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
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Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.
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In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.
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You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?
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A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
