Chris Stein Quotes
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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New York is my home.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
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I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the feeling of being a foreigner. I was very lucky: I came to France, and I had enough money to study and to rent a studio. So, for me, it was not difficult.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
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In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
