Chris Borland Quotes
During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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I'm a guy who likes to keep fighting five, six times a year, so if I ask for too much money, they might say, 'Well, we pay you too much. We can't let you keep jumping backwards and forwards and promote it.' The money I'm making is good to keep grabbing short-notice fights. I love them; they're my favorite ones.
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I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
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Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
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During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.
