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'm a big sleep guy. I think my schedule sorta starts with sleep and making sure I get enough of it. I'm an eight-plus hours guy. I would love to sleep more. I definitely try to create a routine and not stray from that routine at all, but I will take advantage of having an off-morning. And I really have become a fan of the 20-minute catnap.
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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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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen."!
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I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his Obama's historical ignorance.
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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
