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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CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.
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After my divorce I was really down in the dumps. I wanted to reinvent myself.
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We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.
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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
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Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
