Chris Hemsworth Quotes
I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
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Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
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The only people that should vote should be legal.
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Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.
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Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.
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It's fun to move people musically.
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I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.
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When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
