Chris D'Elia Quotes
Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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We shred every day.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
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A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
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People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.
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It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.
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Then there is this idea that the world owes you a living. Here is a little thought about that. It isn't particularly logical but it makes my point. You were paid when you were born, with the privilege of living. Death is all that is coming to you. Life came to you when you were born.
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Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
