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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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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You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.
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Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.
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I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
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My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
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Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
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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?
