Chris Evans Quotes
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
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Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.
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Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
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I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
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I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
