Chris Lilley Quotes
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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I like my dry-aged steaks.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.
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I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.
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When I came into WWE, what I said to myself was, I wanted to change the term from 'divas' to 'women.'
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The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.
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You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.
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It takes me ages to write stuff.
