Christian D. Larson Quotes

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Christian D. Larson

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• To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

  

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• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

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• Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

  

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• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• A real secret is something which only one person knows.

  

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• Defend my honor - Protect my pride

  

  Nicki Minaj
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• The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
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• I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

  

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• I'm not worried about where I rank between other QBs in the league.

  

  Eli Manning
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• Fighters are never who they appear to be.

  

  Mike Tyson
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• As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.

  

  Serinda Swan
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• There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror.

  

  Geoff Thompson
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• I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

  

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• A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
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• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

  

  Willem Dafoe
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• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .

  

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• I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.

  

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• The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist