Chris Jordan Quotes
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
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I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
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If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
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I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.
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You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.
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Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Armed men don’t sit down and talk.
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He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense-as it often is.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.
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He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
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The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.
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I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
