C. J. Anderson (Cortrelle Javon "C. J." Anderson) Quotes

God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

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• For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

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• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

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• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

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• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

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• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

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• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

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• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

  

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• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

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• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
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• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

  

  Valerie June
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• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  

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• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

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• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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• I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

  

  Lainie Kazan
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• I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.

  

  John Lasseter
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• 'God' is the name given to the most ‘important’ human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

  

  Laura Riding
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• People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.

  

  Dan Bejar
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• I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

  

  Keala Settle
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• God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

  

  C. J. Anderson
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