Chris Farley Quotes
Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.
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DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
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If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
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When I turned 21, I started losing weight - again, a normal thing for any girl my age. I did not take a conscious decision to reduce my weight.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.
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By 2050 there will be almost 2.5 times as many people here as in 1960: 420 million. The share of the population of European descent will be a minority as it is today in California, Texas and New Mexico. And that minority will be aging, shrinking and dying. There will be as many Hispanics here, 102 million, as there are Mexicans today in Mexico...
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All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.
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He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.
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Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
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Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.
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I liked it so much, I bought the company
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Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.
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Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.
