Chris Cubas Quotes
I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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There is no truly global justice.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
