Chris Bohjalian Quotes
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
Quotes to Explore
-
We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
-
The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
-
I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
-
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
-
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
-
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
-
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
-
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
-
Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
-
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
-
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
-
For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
-
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
-
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
-
Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
-
I had a very modest upbringing.
-
I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.
-
Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.
-
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
-
It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
-
Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
-
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
