Chris Pine Quotes
After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
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I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
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I grew up a Tamilian.
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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
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After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.
