Chris Hardwick Quotes
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.
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I think it's important to play real people.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
