Chris Pine Quotes

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
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• After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

  

  Gary Webb
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• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
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• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
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• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
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• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
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• I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Health
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  • Wars

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Development

• For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
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  • Career

• I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

  

  Flume
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• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Long
  • Wait

• I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Jewish
  • Bar
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• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
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• A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Why
  • Government

• I am a journalist.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Journalist

• I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
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  • Note

• Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Very
  • Preparation

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Up
  • Proud

• Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • People
  • Business
  • Quality

• For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

  

  Chris Pine
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