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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But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.
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I have a team around me to support me.
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I think if I have learned one thing from all of my family members, both sides of it - my mom's side, my dad's side and everyone else - it's that every one of us has a responsibility to do what we can to contribute back and make our communities and our country a better place.
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Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
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When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this area, they will search not only for me, but for any Palestinian to speak with him. And they will say, "We have five million Arabs in the United States. We can't avoid them."
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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.
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Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.
