Dennis Christopher Quotes
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
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There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.
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The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.
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I don't know why every actor doesn't do more plays.
