Chris Jordan Quotes
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.
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I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory
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All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
