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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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
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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.
