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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I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.
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'In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.' I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so.
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Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game
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One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.
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I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
