Chris Squire Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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We always trend set.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
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I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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Men without jobs do not form families.
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We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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A nightmare is two bassists on stage.
