Chris Isaak Quotes
When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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You can't conserve what you haven't got.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
