Chris Pine Quotes
I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
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I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.
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Every day brings new choices.
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I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
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I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.
