Chris Slade (Christopher Slade Rees) Quotes
We always got on as people, so it wasn’t that different. Everybody got a bit older, including myself, but it felt great.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.
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What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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I never lost my faith.
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We always got on as people, so it wasn’t that different. Everybody got a bit older, including myself, but it felt great.
