Chris Shays Quotes
There's a huge incentive to ... sail on. Is going on a cruise the perfect way to commit the perfect crime?
Quotes to Explore
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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I'm learning every day.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.
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Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.
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Before me, there were no moonsaults, there were no Litacanranas!
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What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don’t empower them to fix what’s broken?
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There's a huge incentive to ... sail on. Is going on a cruise the perfect way to commit the perfect crime?
