Christopher Voss Quotes

There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.

Christopher Voss

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For the son of immigrants to run for elected office, not even a generation after my parents got here, that's what makes America a great place.

Jimmy Gomez

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It's all about Jesus.

Joanna Krupa

JesusAbout

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

Jessie Ware

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You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

Michael C. Burgess

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Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

Sophia Bush

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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.

Stacy Keibler

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I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

Rose McIver

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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Josiah Royce

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British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Jason Gann

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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Joseph Hume

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They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Jonathan Coe

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