Chris Borland Quotes
The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was - it changed the game for me.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
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I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.
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I just need to be me.
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I really enjoy working on adaptations.
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The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was - it changed the game for me.
