Chris Prentiss Quotes
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
Quotes to Explore
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
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Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtleAre emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
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I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.
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Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.
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We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.
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The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
