Chris Gibson Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Actors are a race.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.
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When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
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Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.
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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
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As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
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Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.
