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 loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he's a drama queen.
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I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
