Chris Owen Quotes
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions are living in a personal apocalypse right this second, so a little research and empathy can go a long way toward developing a convincing world.
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We learned the value of research in World War II.
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The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.
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I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.
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Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?
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There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.
