Chris Shays Quotes
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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I never starved myself.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
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In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
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Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.
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I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
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Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.
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I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders
