Chris Diamantopoulos Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.
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Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
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I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.
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Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.
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Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.
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I work in L.A. from time to time.
