Chris Bailey Quotes
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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I love cooking and baking.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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…surely that sneered-at suburban life was more stable than this shadow life…in a country where no involvement was possible…better than the sordid dalliance that soothed me after work?
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I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
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I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.
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I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.
