Chris Pine Quotes
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.
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Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
