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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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 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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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.
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We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
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We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
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My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
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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.'
