Chris Jordan Quotes
I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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I don't read books.
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I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!
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Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.
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I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.
