Chris Borland Quotes
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
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I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.
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Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.
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I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.
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I just don't want to get in a situation where I'm negotiating my health for money.
