Christopher A. Pissarides (Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides) Quotes
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
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Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.
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Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
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I had pretty cool parents. Still do.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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I am purposeful in how I present myself to the world. I want my ideas to be taken seriously, and so I present myself in a way that allows people to see me and listen to what I have to say.
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I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.
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If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.
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I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.
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My tastes have always been pretty cheesy. I like Def Leppard. At the same time, my tastes might be pretty universal. I don't know.
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I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that.
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I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!
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Everything hurt, my legs, my arms, my back.
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I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
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All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.
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I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.
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Germany is dictating its policy in Europe
