Chris Lilley Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
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I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.
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Whether you lead an early-stage startup or a well-established company, it is critical to challenge yourself and your team to prepare for the next disruptive force - be it a shift in the market, a new consumer trend, or a competing innovation.
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I am a very complicated person.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
