Chris Messina Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Dum novus errat amor, vires sibi colligat usu:Si bene nutrieris, tempore firmus erit.Quem taurum metuis, vitulum mulcere solebas:Sub qua nunc recubas arbore, virga fuit:Nascitur exiguus, sed opes adquirit eundo,Quaque venit, multas accipit amnis aquas.
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The instant myth of Amy Fisher turned feminist dogma on on is head: as in the hit films Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, woman rules and destroys. The femme fatale is for real.
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I like to work. I feel blessed that I'm working.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.
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I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.
