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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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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.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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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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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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Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?
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Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
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The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.
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Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventise terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
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It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
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We ended like we started. We came up one game short. But the guys should be very proud of what they've accomplished.
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As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.
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Greenland is not for sale. Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously.
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I never quite know if what I do will be understood.
