Chris Hughes Quotes
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
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When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
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The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive backwash of receding manuscript culture. (p. 170)
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Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.
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I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
