Channing Pollock Quotes
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Conforming is not cool.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
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I live on the Internet.
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On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.
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Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.
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I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.
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Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed.
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I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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Success unshared is failure.
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When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
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Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
