Chris Reifert Quotes
People get so upset about lyrics, and they're probably totally cool with horror movies. That doesn't really make sense.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
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Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
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People get so upset about lyrics, and they're probably totally cool with horror movies. That doesn't really make sense.
