Chris Baio (Christopher Baio) Quotes
Now, I'm mostly a beer man. When I drink hard liquor, it usually doesn't end the best, so I keep it chill with beer.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
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I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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With that I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the Lee: Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow Did never whiter show, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear
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And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.
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Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in unproductive moments. In productive ones try to make use of it as one more means of seizing life.
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Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?
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I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
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I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.
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There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.
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As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.
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Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
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The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.
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Now, I'm mostly a beer man. When I drink hard liquor, it usually doesn't end the best, so I keep it chill with beer.
