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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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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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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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.
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In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.
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Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.
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Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
