Chris Lane Quotes
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
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I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
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As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
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I'm obsessed with golf, so I love going to play golf.
