Chris Davis (Christopher Lyn Davis) Quotes
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You have to be yourself.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I run around with hillbilly girlsThe weekend sits on my hillbilly worldYou better be ready when the sun goes downThat's when country comes to town.
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The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
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This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
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Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.
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I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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America can't beat anyone anymore.
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It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.
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I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.
