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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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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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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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 like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
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Plus-sized women have been told for so long to cover up. Whether it's with a one-piece, a tankini, a bikini with a skirt, high-waisted things, we're always told to hide these things that society calls flaws.
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I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
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Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.
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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.
