Chris March Quotes
One of the things that I've realized in my life is that nothing really happens unless people believe in you.
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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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The prayer is up to us; the answer is up to God.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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Life is full of surprises.
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When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.
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He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.
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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.
