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Chris Pine Quotes

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

Chris Pine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 26, 1980

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Past Think Learn You Look Healthy

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

Joe Elliott

Best Parents Holiday First Without

I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.

Jennifer Egan

Success Pressure Squad Lucky How

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.

John Dickerson

Questions Asking Questions Asking

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

John F. Kennedy

Job Better I Can Know Big Sure

'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town crier. You know, they come in and say, you know, 'It's nine o'clock; everything is cool.' You know, 'President Bush is a fool.' I mean, stuff like that just to tell you. But for the kind of, the African thing is called djali.

Amiri Baraka

Fool Cool You Know Cry Kind

There are certain people who are supposed to be race car drivers, and I've got that. I've got that thing that makes me have to race. I have to do it.

Robert Carradine

Car People Me Race Got Race Car

I used to sit on Saturday nights, and I would watch 'All in the Family' with my family.

Rose Abdoo

Family Saturday Watch Sit Used

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Rosemary Mahoney

Time Think You Person Effect Most

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

Michael Korda

Alone Money People Lead Degree High

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Donella Meadows

Time Trying Understand Never Jury

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

Paul Weller

Angry People Singing Song Rap Big

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain

Person Why Birth Funeral Involved