Chris March Quotes
One of the things that I've realized in my life is that nothing really happens unless people believe in you.
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I am a just man.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.
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One of the things that I've realized in my life is that nothing really happens unless people believe in you.
