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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The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.
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I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.
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We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
