Chris Avery Quotes
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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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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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside someone.
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Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
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It is interesting that people are trying to change the conventional methods
