Chris Paine 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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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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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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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
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There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle
