Chris Pine Quotes
If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.
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If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.
