Chris Jordan Quotes
I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I still keep my accent.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.
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Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
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You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.
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I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.
