Chrisette Michele Payne (Chrisette Michele) Quotes
My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

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I believe in giving back.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.
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I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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I believe in collaboration and cooperation.
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If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
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Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
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For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.
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My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'