Chris Bohjalian Quotes

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Chris Bohjalian

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• The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• 5-hour Energy has always been about helping hard working people, and the Amazing People program takes this further by making a significant difference in the lives of those who are working through difficult circumstances.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Energy
  • Amazing

• I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

  

  Sally Mann
  • You
  • Stand
  • Digital

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Depression

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Love
  • Want
  • Everyday

• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Music
  • Know
  • Jazz

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Between

• Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. 'Why diet when you can take crystal meth?'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

  

  Max Aitken

• A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • Family
  • City
  • Weekend