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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It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
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The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.
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Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.
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Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
