Chris Jordan Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
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The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)
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Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.
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I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.
