Chris Liddell Quotes
What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
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L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.
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A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.
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What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
