Christopher Voss Quotes

As human beings, we're powerfully swayed by how much we feel we're being respected. People comply with agreements if they feel they've been treated fairly and lash out if they don't.

Christopher Voss

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Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Jocko Willink

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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

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I don't gamble.

Robert Kardashian

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A big endorsement deal would be awesome.

Matt Emmons

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Miguel de Unamuno

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I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Don Ho

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I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.

Dmitry Medvedev

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In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

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I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.

Ashley Graham

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Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

Alicia Vikander

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Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.

Phil Klay

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I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!

Shawn Johnson

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