Chris Stokes Quotes
With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.
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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
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What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.
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With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.
