Chris Stokes Quotes
It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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I'm still kind of nerdy about video games, but I've had to take a little bit of a step back. I was really not getting a lot of things done in life because I was playing so much Destiny. I loved it, but I've gotta prioritize.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
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It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.
