J. Christopher Stevens Quotes
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.
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I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
