Chris Raschka Quotes
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.
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A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.
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I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.
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Whenever some kind of mass shooting or any other kind of violent activity takes place, we kind of hold our breath until we are sure that no Muslim was involved, because we know that these incidents will be treated differently if a Muslim is involved versus if somebody of another background is involved.
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.
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I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.
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My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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Trump has emphatically denied ties to Russia - a claim refuted by his Twitter feed and a cursory Google search. Putin says his government had nothing to do with the hack of the DNC computers, even though it carelessly left a trail of crumbs tracing back to his intelligence services. The cunning liar is exploiting the blundering one.
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I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.
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I never quite know if what I do will be understood.
