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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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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Hatred is bred through ignorance. Fear is its father, and isolation its mother. Yet, we are born of empathy and so we hope to return.
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When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved
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I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
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I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
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If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.
