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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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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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.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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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?
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Everything I do now is a first.
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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.
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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.
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I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'
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My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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We have failed to live up to the expectations of the public.
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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.
