Chris Bliss Quotes
Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
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Though there were over 200 policemen standing around, none of them made a move to grab him.
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In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don't beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it's true, it's true.
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Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.
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Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.
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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
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If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.
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Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
