Chris Colfer Quotes
'I was very different from most kids. I would stay home and write and put on shows when other people would go to the football game, and… I think I just put all that energy into wanting to get out of there and do something with my life.'
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.
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'I was very different from most kids. I would stay home and write and put on shows when other people would go to the football game, and… I think I just put all that energy into wanting to get out of there and do something with my life.'
