Chris Chambliss Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
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Duration in change.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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We can't change it now. Obviously, it would be better if he was playing.
