Chris Borland Quotes

I walked away from pro football and a $2.9 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers because I didn't want to develop CTE.

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Know
  • Side
  • Other

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • God
  • Mom
  • Acting

• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Father
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Leading

• Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • More
  • Office
  • Approval

• I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Think
  • Creates

• Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Black
  • Successful

• And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Eye

• Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Learned

• The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Hair

• I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Why
  • Remember

• The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Kill
  • Scares
  • Amazon

• If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Culture
  • Military

• The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Money
  • Government
  • Between

• In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Character

• My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Up
  • Family
  • Political

• I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Guy

• I walked away from pro football and a $2.9 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers because I didn't want to develop CTE.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Football