Chrisette Michele Payne (Chrisette Michele) Quotes
My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
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My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
