Christen Press Quotes
I'm the kind of person where I look to myself a lot on how I can get better. What little, nuanced differences can I make?
Quotes to Explore
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I care about Bahrain.
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I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.
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As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
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The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
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My favorite drink is sake.
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'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.
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For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
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My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
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In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'
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Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally"; and that, growing together in love and faithfulness, we can give children roots and wings.
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The public makes a hit.
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I'm the kind of person where I look to myself a lot on how I can get better. What little, nuanced differences can I make?
